Business Connect Help

[cduff]

I'm looking at either the t650 or the PPC660x phones but have questions regarding the use of the Business Connect feature, even after digging through the forum post history.

I am looking to be able to be notified and answer corporate email (ran off of an exchange server but will not have corporate support for setup w/ the phone as they won't support my level position, even traveling 80% of the time), as well as access to contacts, calendar, etc. From what I gather from the information, there are approximately three choices

1. Have an independent desktop/laptop setup and run 24/7 that will push the email to me as the system comes in. Of course, if the laptop crashes/reboots and is unable to log in, this will not work. Is this correct?

2. Have my phone check for mail independently ever X minutes, but this will cause battery life to diminish as the phone attempts the operation.

3. Set up my corporate email to forward to another account, such as my pcs account, but risk losing the papertrail that I could need at some point down the road.

Am I interpreting the options correctly, or is there something I am missing. Somewhat of a detailed response (including how I would setup the system on my end w/ no corporate support) would be greatly appreciated.

[synthe]

You are pretty much right on the dot. The BCPE feature lets you get notified and access corporate email, contacts, calendar, etc from an exchange or lotus server. The only draw back is you do have to have a PC on your side that can access that email that is on 24/7, or at least when you need access to your emails. But one way around that, which to be honest, is buggy at best, is called Connection Sharing, in which you share another computers internet connection for BCPE when your main computer turns off.
Another option that only the 650 has is that the Versamail client has a selection for Microsoft Activesync account that will link up to your exchange server. It also pulls down your calendar and contacts (I believe, don't have one in front of me to check).
Or you could forward all your emails to the sprintpcs.com email account from the website, but like you said, you could lose the paper trail later on, no guarantee for that option.
If you want help on setting up which ever option you want, feel free to PM me.

[cduff]

for the information. I wanted to make sure it was as accurate as possible. Looks like if I go for it, my best option will be to have the phone check for the email, as the PC would be a bad choice requiring a VPN connection that would time out and I can't afford to miss the paper trail.