Knowledge Base: Webmail Integration for BIS

If you are like me, you sit at your computer with your phone and check emails on your phone instead of your computer.  If not, then you suck!  Just kidding.  If you are a dork however, and like to have your computer mailbox open and refreshing every 10 seconds while you have your phone to notify you also, this post is for you.  On BIS your email is pushed to your phone, but not quite right away.  So you lag a minute or a few from your online inbox so what?  Well this bothers  many people.  RIM has long been working to make emails come in on the BIS network faster, so they have partnered with some email providers.  This is to further enhance integration with email accounts.  Here is the list of accounts that will be faster:

• AOL®
• Yahoo!®
• Gmail®
• Windows Live™ Hotmail®/MSN®
• Hostopia®
• GoDaddy®

Integrated AOL email accounts offer the following benefits:

• Near real-time delivery of email messages
• AOL Mail icon on the BlackBerry smartphone Home screen

Integrated Windows Live Hotmail or MSN email accounts offer the following benefits:

• Near real-time delivery of email messages
• Premium account is no longer required for BlackBerry Internet Service email account integration

Integrated Gmail accounts offer the following benefits:

• Near real-time delivery of email messages

Integrated Yahoo! email accounts offer the following benefits:

• Near real-time delivery of email messages
• Yahoo! Mail icon on the BlackBerry smartphone Home screen

Integrated Hostopia email accounts offer the following benefits:

• Near real-time delivery of email messages

Integrated GoDaddy email accounts offer the following benefits:

• Near real-time delivery of email messages

Check out the article here: Knowledge Base: Enhanced Webmail Integrations for BIS