Blackberries vs. PDA phones

[Mize]

So we're about to launch into the 21st century with mobile email at my company. The trouble is we have these amazingly secure servers and parent company requirements. We *cannot* simply use an SSL POP client. We either use Checkpoint SecureClient (VPN), a Blackberry server or Juniper SSL. The first requires a computer, the second requires a two servers and $6k in software and the third requires one use a web interface for email instead of faster POP or IMAP. On a side note, NO PDA PHONES SUPPORT ANALOG!! Grrr. I have a Kyocera 7135 Palm phone and I find myself on analog when visiting customers in the boonies all the time!

Anyway. It's either drop the dough on a Blackberry system (about $12k with hardware) or suffer a web email interface over cellular.

Anyone with experience in these areas??

Thanks.

 

[Geo]

I forward to my personal account and retrieve over my Treo 600. <shrugs>. But then it sounds like we aren't quite as paranoid on the security of our email.

 

[Mize]

I forward to my personal account and retrieve over my Treo 600. <shrugs>. But then it sounds like we aren't quite as paranoid on the security of our email.

Lots of people do this "unofficially" and it's definitely frowned upon.

 

[Zaphod]

Not all that into email solutions, but using Pine via SSH should be pretty secure and work fine on Symbian based phones.