North American BIS customers get upgraded
By Michael Caputo 
posted Jun 4th 2007 6:00PM
posted Jun 4th 2007 6:00PM
Over this past weekend, BlackBerry customers received a little treat if they're using Gmail or Yahoo! Mail accounts. RIM updated their BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) for what should be all service providers in North America from 2.1 to 2.3. With RIM's latest endeavor to reach a common ground for BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Service) functionality for the BIS subscriber, customers should now be rocking two-way wireless synchronization of deleted emails, auto forwarding from BIS email addresses, as well as read / unread message counts. From what we can tell, the upgrade went smooth with no issues -- which is exactly how BlackBerry users like it.
does this mean that gmail will now push natively without having to set up the fancy filter/forwarding scheme?
I already thought GMAIL was pushed natively without the filtering workaround you've described. I've been using the 8800 on BIS on Cingular for well over a month now and have had no issues.
what's your setup? i had to follow the blackberryforums.com setup, where gmail forwards to my @carrier.blackberry.com address and then use the BIS "reply to" setting. in the meantime setting up "IN:INBOX" filters at gmail.com
I set up the accounts on www.cingular.com/blackberrystart. There, I added up to ten email accounts. I have five accounts, two gmails. I didn't need to forward to my Blackberry account.
and that gave you full PUSH capability with gmail? i'm fairly shocked, when i went to add gmail that way, i was left with only poll email (every 5 minutes) which resulted in my blackberry acting like a small child having seizures due to the log jam every five minutes.
I tested it before using a non-gmail to email my gmail and I got it instantly--way before my desktop outlook got it. I am not sure if it's push or not. I cojuld be wrong.
well bravo to you, i am impressed. i think i'll keep my current setup though, cause as is, email i send from my bberry appears in the sent folder of entourage on my macbook. i know this is easy enough to replicate with your setup, but as they say: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I'm not sure what difference this is supposed to make. I've been using gmail with my blackberry for two weeks without any trouble with push. Maybe this is only on newer versions of the BB os but it had a "setup internet email" thing I just entered my email address and password and it did the setup for me. Then I just had to login at t-mobile's website and setup a filter so my gmail sent mail wouldn't arrive in my inbox on my blackberry.
I haven't noticed any improvement like a message read on my device shows up as read on gmail, or that mail i delete from gmail is deleted from my device.
Cal, How did you set up your BB / Gmail so that you wouldn't get sent e-mail sent to your phone?
I've got T-Mo, but looking at bis.t-mobile.com, I'm not finding a way to set up that filter.
Hey greg, if you login to your account at t-mobile or mytmobile you can click on your phone, then click on the link on the right that says "setup internet mail" and then you should see any emails you have already setup and theres an icon for filters on the right hand side. Then just set a filter not to forward mail that is from your own account.
This was already working, and while I don't notice anything like Cal said. I do hope they do a better update.
Well I have noticed one issue that my traffic alerts no longer show up correctly on my 8700. I use to be able to get them in a html link that would allow me to get the latest information on my daily drive into the office but now the email just shows up blank.
As for the gmail accounts I have 2 of them and they work just fine. (using the gmail setup for outlook settings) I've had mine set up for well over a year and it forwards to my 8700 just fine through my BIS Cingular account. I have all my emails archived in gmail so nothing is ever in my inbox anyway when I log in to gmail.com but I can look in the archives and find anything that I would need.
So far no members on pinstack are saying 2-way sync is working for gmail.. only yahoo.