So, you've got to grips with the fantastic Google Apps, and you're wondering how to receive emails on your mobile phone, eh?

To start with, you need to ensure that POP email collection is turned on in Google Apps' GMail settings, and then you need to log into your BlackBerry online control panel. Here are some of the UK providers' Control Panel URLs:
Vodafone mobileemail.vodafone.net
O2 o2email.co.uk
Orange bis.eu.blackberry.com/html?brand=orangeuk

Log in with your username and password (if you've forgotten the password, they will send it to your BlackBerry in seconds if you click the link).

Once in, we need to set up the account, test it and make sure you don't receive copies of sent items on the BlackBerry:

1. Click on "Set Up Account"
2. Put in your full Google Apps email address (making sure you use the main username, not a nickname or alias) - e.g. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
3. Put your Google Apps password in twice
4. Click Next
   

That should be the email account setup, and you can send yourself a test email to check it! You will find if you stop here, that you start receiving copies of all sent emails on the BlackBerry too, which is a pain, so click on "Email Accounts" and we can set up a filter to prevent this:

1. You will see your new Google Apps email address listed alongside your BlackBerry's own email account. Click on the Filters icon, which corresponds to the Google Apps email:
2. Click on "Add Filter"
3. Choose a logical name for the filter, such as "Google Apps Sent Email"
4. Change "Apply filter when" drop down menu to "From field"
5. Enter your full email address (that you use to send emails from) in "Contains", along with any others you might use to send out emails (info@ etc etc) separated by a simple semicolon ;
6. Select the "Do not forward messages to this device" radio box
7. Click "Add Filter"

Test away to your heart's content, and let us know how you get on with email on your BlackBerry!