Comments on: Gmail tip: Get rid of delivery confirmations

By: Whit

Whit — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:59:34 +0000

Joe, this idea worked like a charm! I actually thought about this a few weeks ago but then it kept slipping my mind to go forth and try it. What I actually did was set my bb filter to filter out subject containing “Delivered:” and that did the trick, finally!!!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:34:45 +0000

David, when you say “Any email BIS processes that has Delivery Confirmation set WILL be confirmed by BIS and you can’t do anything about it,” do you mean it will always confirm when delivering to another BIS account? This only happened to me when I sent an email from my BlackBerry to another BIS user.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:32:19 +0000

It isn’t just Gmail. Any email BIS processes that has Delivery Confirmation set WILL be confirmed by BIS and you can’t do anything about it. RIM doesn’t seem to care that this confirms email addresses to spammers.
You can write to bbsuggestions at rim dot com and ask that they change this behavior of BIS but I’ve been complaining ti them for close to 3 years and they seem not to care or see the wide implications this has.

By: 216

216 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:22:29 +0000

its easier to just use the Gmail app. I use my @live.com email for BIS

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:17:53 +0000

Why is it better to use gmail via BIS? I downloaded the gmail app for the BB and that works best for me. I don’t like how BIS puts everything in my corporate e-mail inbox and I don’t have to fool around with reconciliation issues. In addition, my personal address box, which is in gmail, is available to me in the gmail application. Using BIS for gmail is not worth the effort.