Comments on: ‘Cool Hacks: configure Thunderbird to work with your BlackBerry http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Sat, 25 May 2013 13:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Cobusvdl http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-519330 Cobusvdl Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:55:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-519330 Thanks allot Bill !
Makes my live allot easier!

]]> By: Eldraw http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-432697 Eldraw Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:01:19 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-432697 I have tried Bill’s recommendation but cannot get it to work. Please can he put a bit more detail on it. My Blackberry is a Curve 8900.

]]> By: Eldraw http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-495373 Eldraw Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-495373 I have tried Bill’s recommendation but cannot get it to work. Please can he put a bit more detail on it. My Blackberry is a Curve 8900.

]]> By: Deborah A. Geier http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-363103 Deborah A. Geier Sat, 30 May 2009 04:50:06 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-363103 I bought a Blackberry Curve 8900 in February. As I am a tech novice, the
guy at T-Mobile was kind enough to set it up with my earthlink e-mail (using Thunderbird) at the store. It worked perfectly for months on both the inbound and outbound sides–until recently. That is to say, when a message would
come in to my e-mail account (earthlink on Thunderbird on my home
laptop), it would also show up on my Blackberry. And when I replied to
the e-mail on my blackberry, a copy (showing the content of the entire
reply) would show up in my inbox on my computer with a tag line saying
that it was sent from my Blackberry. This way, I had a record of every
outgoing e-mail that I sent on my Blackberry. This is good, as the
messages on my Blackberry periodically get erased. Everything was on my
laptop, as well.

I noticed about a week ago that I wasn’t getting any e-mail messages on
my Blackberry. When I went on my laptop, there were a bunch of unread
e-mails. So there was obviously something wrong. I went to the T Mobile
store yesterday, and he did something that caused an e-mail message to
show up from “Activation Server.” It said that if I am using an e-mail
client like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, I need to change
my settings to instruct it to leave my messages on the server. The
message said, “If the email client does not leave email messages on the
server, the Blackberry Internet Service may not be able to deliver them
to your Blackberry device.” It then went on with specific instructions
on how to do this. I followed them on Thunderbird, successfully finding
the box that I needed to check to instruct that messages be left on the
server until I delete them.

Well, it worked beautifully in allowing INCOMING e-mail messages to once
again show up on my Blackberry. But when I send a response on my
Blackberry, I am no longer getting a copy to show up on my laptop, as
used to happen routinely. I need copies of the responses to show up as
they used to do. So I called T Mobile Blackberry and got someone who
double checked that messages that I am sending out on my Blackberry are,
indeed, getting sent out, but she had no idea how I can get my outgoing
messages to once again show up on my laptop, as they used to do.

Help! Can anyone tell me why it stopped? Why did things all of a sudden
change when they were working so well? And how I can get my outgoing
content (the entire message) to once again show up on my laptop e-mail,
as it used to do? Everything worked so beautifully for months! I’m
getting really frustrated trying to find someone who can help me…

]]> By: Deborah A. Geier http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-495370 Deborah A. Geier Sat, 30 May 2009 04:50:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-495370 I bought a Blackberry Curve 8900 in February. As I am a tech novice, the
guy at T-Mobile was kind enough to set it up with my earthlink e-mail (using Thunderbird) at the store. It worked perfectly for months on both the inbound and outbound sides–until recently. That is to say, when a message would
come in to my e-mail account (earthlink on Thunderbird on my home
laptop), it would also show up on my Blackberry. And when I replied to
the e-mail on my blackberry, a copy (showing the content of the entire
reply) would show up in my inbox on my computer with a tag line saying
that it was sent from my Blackberry. This way, I had a record of every
outgoing e-mail that I sent on my Blackberry. This is good, as the
messages on my Blackberry periodically get erased. Everything was on my
laptop, as well.

I noticed about a week ago that I wasn’t getting any e-mail messages on
my Blackberry. When I went on my laptop, there were a bunch of unread
e-mails. So there was obviously something wrong. I went to the T Mobile
store yesterday, and he did something that caused an e-mail message to
show up from “Activation Server.” It said that if I am using an e-mail
client like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, I need to change
my settings to instruct it to leave my messages on the server. The
message said, “If the email client does not leave email messages on the
server, the Blackberry Internet Service may not be able to deliver them
to your Blackberry device.” It then went on with specific instructions
on how to do this. I followed them on Thunderbird, successfully finding
the box that I needed to check to instruct that messages be left on the
server until I delete them.

Well, it worked beautifully in allowing INCOMING e-mail messages to once
again show up on my Blackberry. But when I send a response on my
Blackberry, I am no longer getting a copy to show up on my laptop, as
used to happen routinely. I need copies of the responses to show up as
they used to do. So I called T Mobile Blackberry and got someone who
double checked that messages that I am sending out on my Blackberry are,
indeed, getting sent out, but she had no idea how I can get my outgoing
messages to once again show up on my laptop, as they used to do.

Help! Can anyone tell me why it stopped? Why did things all of a sudden
change when they were working so well? And how I can get my outgoing
content (the entire message) to once again show up on my laptop e-mail,
as it used to do? Everything worked so beautifully for months! I’m
getting really frustrated trying to find someone who can help me…

]]> By: Deborah A. Geier http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-495371 Deborah A. Geier Sat, 30 May 2009 04:50:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-495371 I bought a Blackberry Curve 8900 in February. As I am a tech novice, the
guy at T-Mobile was kind enough to set it up with my earthlink e-mail (using Thunderbird) at the store. It worked perfectly for months on both the inbound and outbound sides–until recently. That is to say, when a message would
come in to my e-mail account (earthlink on Thunderbird on my home
laptop), it would also show up on my Blackberry. And when I replied to
the e-mail on my blackberry, a copy (showing the content of the entire
reply) would show up in my inbox on my computer with a tag line saying
that it was sent from my Blackberry. This way, I had a record of every
outgoing e-mail that I sent on my Blackberry. This is good, as the
messages on my Blackberry periodically get erased. Everything was on my
laptop, as well.

I noticed about a week ago that I wasn’t getting any e-mail messages on
my Blackberry. When I went on my laptop, there were a bunch of unread
e-mails. So there was obviously something wrong. I went to the T Mobile
store yesterday, and he did something that caused an e-mail message to
show up from “Activation Server.” It said that if I am using an e-mail
client like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, I need to change
my settings to instruct it to leave my messages on the server. The
message said, “If the email client does not leave email messages on the
server, the Blackberry Internet Service may not be able to deliver them
to your Blackberry device.” It then went on with specific instructions
on how to do this. I followed them on Thunderbird, successfully finding
the box that I needed to check to instruct that messages be left on the
server until I delete them.

Well, it worked beautifully in allowing INCOMING e-mail messages to once
again show up on my Blackberry. But when I send a response on my
Blackberry, I am no longer getting a copy to show up on my laptop, as
used to happen routinely. I need copies of the responses to show up as
they used to do. So I called T Mobile Blackberry and got someone who
double checked that messages that I am sending out on my Blackberry are,
indeed, getting sent out, but she had no idea how I can get my outgoing
messages to once again show up on my laptop, as they used to do.

Help! Can anyone tell me why it stopped? Why did things all of a sudden
change when they were working so well? And how I can get my outgoing
content (the entire message) to once again show up on my laptop e-mail,
as it used to do? Everything worked so beautifully for months! I’m
getting really frustrated trying to find someone who can help me…

]]> By: Deborah A. Geier http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-495372 Deborah A. Geier Sat, 30 May 2009 04:50:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-495372 I bought a Blackberry Curve 8900 in February. As I am a tech novice, the
guy at T-Mobile was kind enough to set it up with my earthlink e-mail (using Thunderbird) at the store. It worked perfectly for months on both the inbound and outbound sides–until recently. That is to say, when a message would
come in to my e-mail account (earthlink on Thunderbird on my home
laptop), it would also show up on my Blackberry. And when I replied to
the e-mail on my blackberry, a copy (showing the content of the entire
reply) would show up in my inbox on my computer with a tag line saying
that it was sent from my Blackberry. This way, I had a record of every
outgoing e-mail that I sent on my Blackberry. This is good, as the
messages on my Blackberry periodically get erased. Everything was on my
laptop, as well.

I noticed about a week ago that I wasn’t getting any e-mail messages on
my Blackberry. When I went on my laptop, there were a bunch of unread
e-mails. So there was obviously something wrong. I went to the T Mobile
store yesterday, and he did something that caused an e-mail message to
show up from “Activation Server.” It said that if I am using an e-mail
client like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, I need to change
my settings to instruct it to leave my messages on the server. The
message said, “If the email client does not leave email messages on the
server, the Blackberry Internet Service may not be able to deliver them
to your Blackberry device.” It then went on with specific instructions
on how to do this. I followed them on Thunderbird, successfully finding
the box that I needed to check to instruct that messages be left on the
server until I delete them.

Well, it worked beautifully in allowing INCOMING e-mail messages to once
again show up on my Blackberry. But when I send a response on my
Blackberry, I am no longer getting a copy to show up on my laptop, as
used to happen routinely. I need copies of the responses to show up as
they used to do. So I called T Mobile Blackberry and got someone who
double checked that messages that I am sending out on my Blackberry are,
indeed, getting sent out, but she had no idea how I can get my outgoing
messages to once again show up on my laptop, as they used to do.

Help! Can anyone tell me why it stopped? Why did things all of a sudden
change when they were working so well? And how I can get my outgoing
content (the entire message) to once again show up on my laptop e-mail,
as it used to do? Everything worked so beautifully for months! I’m
getting really frustrated trying to find someone who can help me…

]]> By: Cuppidd http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-336418 Cuppidd Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:59:29 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-336418 I brought an unlock blackberry storm and got it working w/ my ATT sim card (1st Generation) which is on a pay as you go account. Which was removed from my iphone but the only features that works are the incoming and outgoing calls, and the text messages, How can I get my email working …i called ATT but they cant seem to help me because they say the blackberry storm program is not supported….can you help me?

]]> By: Cuppidd http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-495369 Cuppidd Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:59:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-495369 I brought an unlock blackberry storm and got it working w/ my ATT sim card (1st Generation) which is on a pay as you go account. Which was removed from my iphone but the only features that works are the incoming and outgoing calls, and the text messages, How can I get my email working …i called ATT but they cant seem to help me because they say the blackberry storm program is not supported….can you help me?

]]> By: josh http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-336352 josh Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:25:03 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-336352 just another update/thought. Gmail now offers off-line email capability. here’s the description within Gmail:

“Make Gmail go where the Internet doesn’t. Access your inbox through your browser and use Gmail’s familiar features when you’re offline. To get started, enable this lab and then click on the “Offline” link in the upper-right of your inbox.”

i don’t have a true use for this feature, but i just wanted to share with everyone in case you hadn’t heard.

]]> By: josh http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-495367 josh Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:25:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-495367 just another update/thought. Gmail now offers off-line email capability. here’s the description within Gmail:

“Make Gmail go where the Internet doesn’t. Access your inbox through your browser and use Gmail’s familiar features when you’re offline. To get started, enable this lab and then click on the “Offline” link in the upper-right of your inbox.”

i don’t have a true use for this feature, but i just wanted to share with everyone in case you hadn’t heard.

]]> By: josh http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-495368 josh Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:25:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-495368 just another update/thought. Gmail now offers off-line email capability. here’s the description within Gmail:

“Make Gmail go where the Internet doesn’t. Access your inbox through your browser and use Gmail’s familiar features when you’re offline. To get started, enable this lab and then click on the “Offline” link in the upper-right of your inbox.”

i don’t have a true use for this feature, but i just wanted to share with everyone in case you hadn’t heard.

]]> By: Configuring Thunderbird to work with BlackBerry | BB Geeks http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-333826 Configuring Thunderbird to work with BlackBerry | BB Geeks Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:30:39 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-333826 [...] plugin to do it, but that’s a bit convoluted, if not ineffective. Today, I tip my hat to BlackBerry Cool, because they’ve got some instructions on how to do this in a different way. I’d still [...]

]]> By: Cal Sync http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-333750 Cal Sync Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:53:10 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-333750 Cool. Very easy instructions.

]]> By: Cal Sync http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-495366 Cal Sync Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:53:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-495366 Cool. Very easy instructions.

]]> By: chris-b http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-333700 chris-b Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:57:03 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-333700 You could also use an IMAP-Account and download e-mails for offline usage with thunderbird ;)

]]> By: chris-b http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-495365 chris-b Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:57:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-495365 You could also use an IMAP-Account and download e-mails for offline usage with thunderbird ;)

]]> By: Nedim http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-333661 Nedim Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:43:23 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-333661 @Caspan, contacts and calendar are easily synced to Google using Google Sync even on custom domain. I don’t mean to plug Google here, but for people without BES this stuff just works, is easy to set up, and maybe most importantly free!

I’m on BES/Lotus for work, but use the above setup for personal stuff.

]]> By: Nedim http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-495362 Nedim Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:43:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-495362 @Caspan, contacts and calendar are easily synced to Google using Google Sync even on custom domain. I don’t mean to plug Google here, but for people without BES this stuff just works, is easy to set up, and maybe most importantly free!

I’m on BES/Lotus for work, but use the above setup for personal stuff.

]]> By: Nedim http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/04/cool-hacks-configure-thunderbird-to-work-with-your-blackberry/comment-page-1/#comment-495363 Nedim Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:43:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=10268#comment-495363 @Caspan, contacts and calendar are easily synced to Google using Google Sync even on custom domain. I don’t mean to plug Google here, but for people without BES this stuff just works, is easy to set up, and maybe most importantly free!

I’m on BES/Lotus for work, but use the above setup for personal stuff.

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