[dbriner]

I have a client that wants to have several years worth of email available on the BB? How do you load the email from the users exchange acct to the BB? Is there a limit on email age or number other than the physical memory size?

Dan

[BB_0wned]

If you are on a BES 4.0 there is pre population for email but ONLY if it is a new user who has performed an Enterprise Activation. This will only allow to go back as far as 7 days worth of messages though. If the user wants ALL their email that is on Exchange the only way to transfer it to the BB would be to forward each message to himself. There is no way to "synchronize" email, it is pushed down when delivered to their Exchange Mailbox. As for size limit, there isnt one. The user can have as many messages on the BB depending on memory size on their model of BB.

[genesislogic]

Great question, great response. Can i further ask a question on these lines?

I have a client who has a huge mail file (about 4000 messages in his inbox, thousands of contacts, hundreds of tasks, dozens and dozens of notes) on Outlook using a POP3 mailbox. He's considering a Nextel 7520 using an externally hosted BES service. From what I read, am I to understand you are saying:

a) There is no way to sync his Inbox so that these messages show up in his Blackberry (forget the number of 4000, lets say I cleaned it up to 200). The BB will only see "new mail" that it receives, not sync old mail, correct?

b) Based on keeping several thousand contacts, hundreds of tasks, notes, and a lot of active mail, will he "run out" of memory anytime soon on such a device? What is the size limitation, in terms of contacts/calendar/etc realistically?

Thank you.

[amukhey]

7 Days / 350 Messages

[NJBlackBerry]

amukhey - what are those numbers based on?
Which model BB?
How much memory?
Any third party applications?

[Dustbin30]

7 days / 350 messages are the max for an Exchange BES V4. It is slightly different for Domino. It is not dependant on the handheld version or amount of memory. If the hh does not have enough memory it overwrites the oldest mails. No third party apps.

[d_fisher]

Originally Posted by dbriner

I have a client that wants to have several years worth of email available on the BB?

Keep in mind that the BlackBerry was designed to keep you in touch with your immediate messaging needs. I don't think that it was meant to be a archival device. Besides, how often does someone need to reply/forward/reference emails that are multiple years old. Even if you have to do it once a week, cant that be done from your fat email client?

Doug

[amukhey]

7 days 350 messages is the amount it will bring down during ent activation-its the same through out from Outlook and Domino.

If you speak of storage, A 7290 can hold close to 4000 messages (2-5k per msg) is good enough for it to hold until it starts deleting from the bottom to make space for the new ones.

If you speak of 16MB devices, then I would say 2000 messages is close enough and can go a little higher but your killing the device.

[Dookie]

And last addition - It really depends on how many contacts the user have. I have encountered situation when user had over 800 contacts thus reducing the overall message capacity of the device.

[amukhey]

Very true unless using a 7290-I have a user with 2K contacts and able to hold at least 2K worth of email messages. Cant speak for the speed and performance of the device.

[cxxxkies]

Hi all,

Is there a way that we can check the amount of memory used by particular section like mem consumed by address, task, calendar and memo? I only see the free space and not much info in it.

e.g. 100 contacts ~ kb?

right now im using an old 7230 but still manage to get evaerything in it.. even 16Meg of mem with 1000+ contacts and roughly 30mails per day.. so not a power user at all
BES4 /Outlook

[amukhey]

You can use it using the Desktop Manager-Backup/Restore-Advanced(The BB should be plugged in). Find this out and on the BB, go to Options-Status...it will give you memory count and just easily do the math....on the bb, it wont give you memory per application.