How to Use Thunderbird With a BlackBerry
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The first step getting email addresses set up.Email Concept image by wayne ruston from Fotolia.com
Use an email address that you give to others, such as that appearing on a business card or that you use an a business web-site. For the sake of example, say it is name@email.com. Make sure you also have email addresses set up in your Thunderbird (such as namethunderbird@gmail.com) and your BlackBerry (such as name@att.blackberry.net) accounts, as well. - 2
Arranging your accounts so that incoming mail is sent somewhere else.step forward image by Adkok from Fotolia.com
Set up your email forwarding in the site that you normally use your email address in--such as Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail--so that the incoming mail made out to name@email.com is forwarded to your BlackBerry address and your Thunderbird address. - 3
The BlackBerry is now put into the proper configuration for handling email.Blackberry image by Pictures4you from Fotolia.com
Go into BlackBerry and configure your BlackBerry address so that the "Reply to:" address is name@email.com and the "Auto BCC:" address is namethunderbird@gmail.com. - 4
Next,Thunderbird's handling of email is adjusted.International Air show 2007 ( Kecskemet, Hungary) image by Kavita from Fotolia.com
Arrange Thunderbird to get emails from namethunderbird@gmail.com, which will also get emails from name@email.com and also the BCC emails from Blackberry. Make the "Reply to:" address name@email.com and the "Auto BCC" address is name@blackberry.com. - 5
The final touch is setting up a rule about marking of email messages.final image by ril from Fotolia.com
Create a Thunderbird rule that all incoming emails from name@email.com (which is also BCC mail from Blackberry) will mark messages as "Read" and file them in the "Sent Items" folder.