Email Woes

[mhyusi]

Hey everyone,

I'm having trouble setting up the email to work with my Pacbell/Yahoo account or either of my Gmail accounts. Anyone have any tips or screenshots of settings?

Thanks,

Mike

[jose6942]

:( I need help to

[chue]

Yahoo doesn't allow you to configure an email client unless you pay for their premium service:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/mailplus/pop/pop-30.html

This is why I stopped using Yahoo - Sorry, if you are using the premium service, I don't know what the setup is. However, the link above does have some information on that.

As for gmail, here are my configuration notes. Hope it helps.

a) In the email app menu, select Accounts -> New Account

b) On Screen "1/4"
Account Name: gmail
Account Type: pop3

c) Screen 2/4
User name: recent:<username>@gmail.com
Password: <password>
Email Address: <username>@gmail.com

d) Screen 3/4
Incoming Server: pop.gmail.com
Outgoing Server: smtp.gmail.com

e) Screen 4/4. Click Advanced.

f) Incoming Tab:
Retrieve: Messages and Attachments
Leave Messages on Server: [x]
Password Authentication: Normal
Security: SSL
Incoming email Port: 995

g) Outgoing Tab:
SMTP Authentication: Login
User name: recent:<username>@gmail.com
Password: <password>
Security: SSL
Outgoing email Port: 465

NOTE it is important to use "recent:<username>@gmail.com" as the login name because
this will allow MULTIPLE email clients to get mail from gmail via Pop (eg,
when using BOTH the N800 and Outlook). If "recent:" is not used then only ONE Pop
client will be able to get the emails from the server (first come first serve).

[mhyusi]

Thanks for the info, but do I need to change all of my gmail acounts to say "recent:<username>@gmail.com" or just the one on the N800?

Thanks,

Mike

[TPGolfer]

There is a "How to" on the Tabelteer site (which has a shortcut on the homepage of a N770, anyway), which uses Gmail as the example. I finally managed to set-up my gmail accounts using this after about a year of fustration and giving up!

Didn't know about the "recent:' tip though - good one!

Now, does anyone know how to separate mail from different addresses (eg 2 gmail) into different folders in the email client?

[chue]

@mhyusi

It depends on what you want to do -

If you don't use "recent", then the emails will be marked by google as having been pulled down. So if you have two clients that pull from the same account (say Outlook and the N800), only one of them will see the email - whichever one pulls it down first.

If you use "recent" in both clients, then both email clients will be able to see the new emails.

If only one client has "recent", then that client won't see any emails that have been pulled by the other client.

I hope my explanation isn't too confusing.

[mhyusi]

Nope, and again, thanks for the help, I'll try it out when I get home.
Mike

[TA-t3]

Didn't know about recent:, great tip!

[chue]

I failed to mention one important step in my note above:

you have to also enable pop access in your gmail account. This setting is found under "settings" -> "forwarding and pop" at the gmail web site.

[fondoo]

has anyone gotten gmail pop3 to work? i keep getting failed to authentication

[mhyusi]

Fondoo, I was having the same trouble but followed the instructions above and now it works just fine.

Mike

[bunzl2000]

Same here I was having big problems, but I followed the instructions above & have now got it working on my N800. Don't forget the additional post about setting your google mail account to accept POP. This was posted further down.

[james.bottomtooth]

g) Outgoing Tab:
SMTP Authentication: Login

i spent 2 days poking around because i missed the above step...

can i change the directory where mail is stored?

[testerj]

I am able to get Gmail to work, but it will only download emails to the end of 2006... strange!:confused: