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OK. I assume that we have installed Funambol, as I described here. It is time to run the server. Go to the Funambol directory (default: /opt/Funambol) and run:
# ./bin/funambol start
if you are lucky the server will start, but on Solaris, you need to modify scripts, because you problably will see that message:

./bin/funambol: J2EE_HOME=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat: is not an identifier

and again – this is compatibility problem between Linux and Unix shell. But personally I think, that Funambol developers should correct this, and in place of:

Funambol is Open Source software, which act as a server BIS (BlackBerry Internet Server) and provide contacts, calendars, notes and email synchronization with BlackBery devices.
Funambol is not only BIS server – it also provides related projects like plugins to most popular email clients like Outlook or Thunderbird, desktop software provides synchronization of contacts with Mac OS X, Google Mail, Yahoo or Evolution. There are also applications to mobile phones with Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android and for iPhone and others. But at first I will attend synchronization server.

Few days ago I received a copy of mail about possibility of run BlackBerry solution at University of Silesia. I conclude that I should familiarize with this subject and software, which can serve this kind of services. Assume that our mail servers does not work under control of any followed systems: MS Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise, then for today we can not run BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) and we must to run BIS (BlackBerry Internet Server) service, which synchronize mail using standard protocols as IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. I received at once link to Funambol software, which has those capacities. For those who are not familiar with BlackBerry I placed here (marketing) description from http://uk.blackberry.com/ page: