Blackberry support?

[chrisq]

Will Zimbra support Over the Air Wireless sync for Blackberry? If it does, I may actually move away from POP3. I would not get Exchange server just to use Blackberry Desktop Redirector.

TIA.

Chris

[sam]

The Blackberry desktop redirector should work with the zimbra mapi provider.

[PeterH]

Hello,

This is my first post in this forum. Zimbra seems very, very interesting in a broad line of aspects.. Keep up the good work!

To this question and answer: Main element in over the air syncing of a blackberry is the Blackberry server. This must connect to an existing mailtransport as momentarily Lotus Domino or MsExchange. Having established this it is possible for a company to deploy Blackberries without any local desktop application or what so ever. The issue adressed in the question seems to be: 'is a connection to any form of blackberry-server under construction or will there only be a connection via mapi and local desktop to sync (indirectly) over the air?

Or: local sync does not seem to be a workable solution for corporate usage of blackberries in combination with Zimbra?

Please correct me if i see this wrong, would open some new perspectives, otherwise please complement the answer in direction of the added elements?

Thnx in advance!
Peter

[sam]

The Zimbra mapi provider will enable both the blackberry desktop redirector and the blackberry enterprise server to function with a Zimbra backend.

[PeterH]

Hello Sam,

Thnx 4 the quick reply. Does this imply that Connection to a BES-server could be established right now on the current public version?
If so is there any information available on that topic as I haven't yet found any? (which doesn't mean it's not available.. )

regards,
Peter

[sam]

No. The current version does not support blackberry. The Network bits will be required.