Blackberry on Zimbra: I Never Knew How Good I Had It with my Treo

I just switched from Treo to Blackberry on Zimbra- my provider upgraded to Zimbra 5.0 and it seems not to play well with Palm-based Treos everywhere. 

Zimbra doesn’t support Blackberry Enterprise Server and the workaround is a 3rd party program called NotifyLink. 

I’m still working with it, but it seems clear that I had true “push” using the Chatteremail client for Palm, but NotifyLink will only poll 1x/minute.  I got a kick out of seeing mail hit my Treo before my desktop mail.

Chatter also made my Treo’s LED blink when I had new messages.  Blackberry doesn’t do this under any circumstances that I can see.  I’ll miss that too.

Sour grapes.  Yuck.  On the other hand, Treo never managed to over-the-air sync my calendar/contacts.  It looks like NotifyLink will do that, so there’s something.

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