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Originally Posted by akosnitzky
Can someone please clarify what the purpose is of this program?
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It is a self-contained mail program that's like having Thunderbird on your desktop; in mobile terms you can look up ChatterEmail (Palm software) for the most popular one around. Instead of pushing your email to your device, it gives you IMAP access to your email (all folders - Sent, everything).
My personal usage: my BB device is *mine*, I only push out all my personal mails to the device. I use LogicMail to connect and read my work email on-demand as I see fit, the email is not stored or cluttering up my personal device. I can also access all my folders of email from LogicMail if needed, something you can't do with the BIS-push stuff.
Compared to IMAP, BIS is child's play. IMAP can best be compared to BES - except you don't need enterprise activation and so forth. Many of us do not use Exchange or Lotus for email at work, we use traditional IMAP email servers (Courer-IMAP, Cyrus, Dovecot, uw-imap, etc.). Many, many universities also use traditional IMAP infrastructure. BES doesn't exist or work with our email servers, it's a turnkey solution for Exchange type people.