Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Configure Email on your cell phone : The Tutorial

These days almost all the phones from low-end to high-end if multimedia enabled support the Email function with an inbuilt phone application in the messages menu which we hardly use or notice. If you these applications are fantastic and work just very fine if configured correctly. 
The question here is most of us often don't know how to configure Email accounts and retrieve and send your mails without actually starting the phone browser or third party application.
The first step in using email on your mobile phone is to define your email account’s settings so that  your mobile phone knows which server to contact and to login using the correct credentials.  

You can follow these steps. Irrespective of the phone models these field remain the same. However accessing the Email setup wizard may vary in different models.

1. In the Messages menu go to settings. look for Email settings
2. Go to Email Accounts/Profiles and create a new profile.
3. Name it according to the server your using. eg : Gmail

Now note these fields as these are important for email working process.
Here we are illustrating Gmail account setup
  • SMTP server : smtp.gmail.com
  • SMTP port : 465
  • Secure Connection : SSL (Optional)
  • Incoming email server type : POP3
  • POP3 server : pop.gmail.com
  • POP3 port : 995
  • Enter ur email address in my email address     option
  • User Name/Password : Your Gmail credentials
  • If there is an option for SMTP authentication enable it
  • Save this account and activate it in the sending and receiving options.
*imp : Set your GPRS/EDGE profile same as you use for your browser depending on plans and operators respectively.


For Other email accounts like yahoo, msn, etc you can create new accounts by changing the SMTP and POP/IMAP servers.
Now when you go to the new message/create message option, you can see email and you can now actually send emails from your message menu and retrieve them in the message inbox respectively

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