HOWTO: Enable Zimbra filtered message folders on Blackberry w/ BES service

Thanks to the folks at my IT helpdesk for this tip on how to enable your BB to get mail from within Zimbra folders:

1. Go to your Messages folder, hit menu key and select Options.
2. Go to Email Settings. Hit menu button, select Folder Redirection.
3. You will see your mailbox which can be expanded. Expand your inbox and select the folders you want to be sync'd (on my device they're blue instead of grey). Hit menu button, select Save.

Any NEW messages routed to those folders will now be located in the folders on the device as well. As new messages, they'll appear in your Messages folder along with SMSs, MMSs, BBIMs, and other email. Once read, they'll disappear into the appropriate folder(s).

Zimbra mail filters

Get too much mail? Don't we all. Here's how I filter it so it's more manageable. Log in. Click Preferences > Mail Filters. If you use Thunderbird, you can set tags and automatically move emails into IMAP folders. Then, just make sure the tags you've set exist in Thunderbird, and you'll get colourized, sorted mail.

Blackberry Linux Mail, Calendar, Tasks & Contact Sync, Part 2

Things have improved since my last post, despite the fact that I managed to kill Thunderbird along the way and lost a good chunk of today figuring out to restore it. Luckily I can read French, or I may never have found the solution to the elusive -203 problem.

Aside:

To recover from a corrupt Thunderbird profile, create a new profile using thunderbird -ProfileManager, then transfer your data to the new profile. Easy-peasy.

Next, reinstall all your extensions. I use these 15 extensions.

I've also managed to get barry to work for backing up my Blackberry on Fedora. Turns out the problem is that it simply needs root privileges.

Here's how the data flows, drawn with JBoss Tools' jBPM Graphical Process Designer:

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I don't yet have a solution for Zimbra contacts & calendar being accessible on the Blackberry, short of manually duplicating entries from one repo to the other. Still, 5 out of 7 data sources synched is pretty decent.