. : Looking through the eyes : .

Some of my colleague at work was asking on how to setup corporate e-mail on their personal blackberry device (Bold or Curve or Storm). Basically only the GMs and above or certain SMs will get access to the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) emails. For those with personal Blackberry either through Celcom or Maxis comes with BIS (Blackberry Interner Service). Please refer here to know what’s the difference between BIS and BES.

Some of my colleagues tried to contact our IT personnel, but was unable to get assistance beyond BES since BES need certain approvals to access e-mail. Therefore it left them only with BIS which was provided by the service provider (Celcom or  Maxis). I don’t personally have a blackberry  but I searched around for quite a while until I found a very straightforward solutions. Apparently I have already found the solution when I wrote this article on Setting Up Corporate Exchange Mail with Apple Mail; only that you just need to tweak a bit for Blackberry Setting.

I found this website from T-Mobile, and we’ll go from there on how set these things up.

To set up BlackBerry Internet E-mail via your BlackBerry®, perform the following steps:

1. From the BlackBerry handheld Home screen or Tools menu, select the Set Up Internet E-mail or E-mail Setup icon.

3. Enter your e-mail address and password for the account you would like to access from your BlackBerry handheld. Confirm the password and select Next.

4. Within minutes you will see one of the following messages:

We were unable to configure this e-mail account. Select the type of account you want to configure.

You will be presented with the following options. Scroll to and select the one that best describes your e-mail account.

5. After you choose the second option, you’ll need to enter these details:

• Outlook Web Access URL: Enter the Web address for your Microsoft® Outlook Web Access (OWA) account.
• Username: This is the username you use to access your organization’s network or e-mail system. You may have to include your NT domain. For example: NTDOMAIN\Username
• Password: This is the password used to access your organization’s e-mail. This is your NT password.
• Mailbox name: Enter the mailbox name for your Microsoft® Outlook Web Access (OWA) account. If you do not know your mailbox name, please check with your IT Helpdesk professional for details.

So basically these are the details:

• Outlook Web Access URL: https://owa.miscbhd.com/exchange
• Username: petronas\username
• Password: ********
• Mailbox name: username

* There you go. I hope it will work with you. Happy trying.

Ever since it was announced that the new OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will support Microsoft Exchange server out of the box, I was really excited since now, I no longer need to access my company’s email through Outlook Web Access (OWA) using web browser which is not native email client.

However, my excitement did not last forever when in the Apple Support website mentioning that this Exchange supported on Snow Leopard only support the Exchange 2007, not the Exchange 2003 which my company is currently using. I was a bit skeptical at this first since the latest version of iPhone works flawlessly with Exchange 2003; which many of my colleague is currently using.

Apparently after reading forums after forums, I discovered Snow Leopard Mail support Exchange Web Services (EWS) which is the new technology for Exchange 2007, unlike WebDav and IMAP Exchange which was previously supported in Exchange 2003. Apple iPhone on the other hand is using ActiveSync which widely used on mobile phones nowadays to connect and synchronize with Exchange server. This activesync technology is not supported on Snow Leopard Mail; an even on Microsoft Outlook at any Windows machines.

Well then, straight to the point:

What do you need

1. Install the davmail software. Get it from here: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

2. Apple Mail of course, either on Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard.

3. Patient, patient, patient… if all the setting went correctly, the first email arrived might take a few minutes.

Instruction

1. I will not go too much in details. Please read the instruction here:  http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

These are importants

1. You need the OWA address. The format will looks like ‘https://owa.servername/exchange.

2. Click setting of preference on Davmail once you installed it and type in the server adress.

2. Open up you Mail. At preference, click the ‘+’ button and enter the details.

servername: localhost

username: domain\username:

password : xxxxx

Custom port address:

IMAP: 1143 (These are important)

SMTP: 1025

Please click the images below to visualize all the screenshot of all required setting.

If everything went well, take the account online and the mail will arrive within a few minutes.

Additional Info

If you want to further setup the iCal and Address to sync you calendar  and to get the company contacts and the autocompletion of address, please refer the website I mentioned above. If you manage to get the email working, the rest should be easier.

Happy trying !

Update (26/01/2010 9.29 PM)

I tried this method on Microsoft Entourage too. I works. I thinks it will work on any email clients supporting IMAP.