Hotmail

yes you can ... but you have tu subscribe to a premium service... I dont know how much it costs ... but it will give you pop access..

Regards

jfm

get a gmail account. It makes hotmail look like the crap it is.

You are so correct.

Another thing is the risk on the blackberry. Smart phones are being targeted right now by criminals in far and dark regions of the earth in order to:

1) high jack your account between billing periods so to maximise their abuse time of said account.

2) take control of the phone so to extract your personal data for identity fraud.

3) copy your personal data files if they know they want something of you. This can happen without you even noticing it.

4) just for malicious reasons beyond our grasp of understanding they can and will frazzle the phones firmware which could leave you with an expensive bill for repair.

I would stay with a regular computer and proper protection. Those smart phones are just too damn smart for their own good.

GMail is definitely the hot setup - you can configure it for IMAP that way everything is sync'd between your device and your desktop.

I use ms office for sync

That works ok if your company sets up your email server for imap or uses an exchange server - which is ok for most corporate users, but I use my gmail accounts for personal use and that way my personal email stays synced with my laptop at home and my phone without having to necessarily sync my phone to my computer. I still use office to sync my calender, contacts and documents, but for personal use it is kind of nice to use the imap feature of gmail.

i get my hotmail delivered onto my pearl 8100 no problems. sending and receiving hotmail using the push service works fine i think you can get a download for it if it does not work. the only down side is that if you have set folders up on hotmail then you will not get these files as you only receive what goes directly into your 'inbox'.