I bought a Blackberry 8300 (Curve) for my boss. Configured it. Downloaded programs,
installed them and configured them as well. Spend a whole day with the
Blackberry.

Blackberry's E-mail client is weak compared to Chatteremail.
An E-mail client that does not allow you to download any folder other than
INBOX?

I have 5 E-mail accounts configured in Chatteremail, 3 IMAP and 2 POP.
Two IMAP (one home and one work) accounts have their INBOXes in PUSH mode,
with different sound notifications so that I know which account got mail
before reaching for my Treo.

Both INBOXes have preset sleep hours, so that my Treo does not disrupt me at
night.

I also subscribe to many subfolders from those two IMAP accounts.
Many of them are in full OFFLINE mode, I download when I want to see what's
new.

Some subfolders from my work account are in semi-OFFLINE mode, with
Chatteremail getting the E-mail in them in preset intervals (different for
each folder, according to importance). Those folders do not notify me
because I don't need such notifications.

I use SUMMARY view with my IMAP work account in order to have my INBOX and
SENT folders together, and have a nice "dialog" view of what I am saying and
what I am getting. My messages and those I get are visually differentiated
by color tags.

When I don't want Chatteremail to bother me, three keystokes is all it takes
for me to take it down: MAIL button and MENU + Q oe MENU + X. When I want to
restore it, all I need to do is invoke it once by pressing the MAIL button.
If I want Chatteremail to check everything, all folders and all accounts, I
press MENU + Y inside Chatteremail.

Chatteremail saves E-mails in a SD card if I want to. This is a PER FOLDER
configuration. If the SD card is not present, it does not stop getting
E-mails, it saves them in RAM until the card is back.

I can configure SMTP rules per folder, not per account, so I can have a
different signature AUTOMATICALLY inserted when replying to work colleagues,
to clients, to suppliers, etc.

Chatteremail is mighty powerful and the application I most certainly would
miss should I migrate to another platform.

That being said, I did like the Blackberry Curve and liked a LOT the nice
look of the OS and its stability. Navigating though menus and particularly
switching applications, on the other hand, is so horribly designed, it makes
Windows Mobile look good.

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