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In the previous post, we looked at ditching your current client for GMail and all the benefits it provides. Including, unlimited storage, web based, desktop based (w/ gears), among all of the other great features GMail provies. Now we’re going to take a quick look at extending this to a Blackberry.
Now that we’ve made GMail our hub, we need to setup our BIS account to receive and send email for all of our addresses. In order to find out where to login to your BIS account, give your carrier a call.
Once logged in, click on “Setup Account” and enter in your GMail credentials. Once this goes through, you’re Blackberry will start receiving all your mail, including the ones sent to your other accounts thanks to the forwarder we setup earlier.
Only thing left to do now is enable our Blackberry to send email through our different email accounts. Again, go through the “Setup Account”, same as we did for the GMail login. This time you’ll need the login information for your other email accounts on your server. Again, if you don’t have this information, get in touch with who ever manages the email server.
There is one little tweak we need to do once you setup all your accounts. In order to stop receiving duplicate emails on your device, and still enjoy the spam protection from GMail, we need to setup a filter.
From the main BIS page, go into the filter menu for each of the email addresses, except GMail, and setup a filter not to deliver messages intended for that address. This works because we all those messages via the GMail account.
There you have it. You now have a nice, central, web client for all your email with basically unlimited storage. Also are now under the great Google spam umbrella.
Tags: blackberry, email