Tip # 33 : Email (Gmail)
account settings for your D900:
I
got this information originally from X700
section > internet tips > Tip#02. You may refer
this page also. If you have a pop3 e-mail account, you can send/receive
e-mails from your phone. Hence the procedure for setting up a g-mail
account is given here. Anyhow, you can set up accounts other than
g-mail also, if you enable pop3/imap4 access.
WEB
SETTINGS
1. Log in to your Gmail account from PC.
2. Click Settings at the top of Gmail page.
3. Click Forwarding and POP in the orange Mail
Settings box.
4. On POP download section, select Enable
POP for all mails.
5. ‘When messages are accessed with pop’–
select ‘keep Gmail’s copy in the
inbox’
6. Click Save Changes ... A message will appear
that Your preferences have been saved.
PHONE SETTINGS
Go to menu/messages/settings/e-mails/Email accounts/acount
settings and select account1. Sample
settings are given below for an e-mail account
“abcd@gmail.com” with password “1234”
(example). ·
In Use- (tick it) ·
Account name – (any name; example- abcd)
Press "Ok/I" to go to next section
· User name
– (Enter your name or any other. When you send a mail from
PHONE, the receiver will get this user name in the ‘From’
column. This will not affect the
sender name, when you mail
from computer.) ·
Email address - abcd@gmail.com ·
Reply address - abcd@gmail.com
Press "Ok/I" to go to next section ·
SMTP server – smtp.gmail.com ·
SMTP port – 465 ·
SMTP User ID – abcd ·
SMTP password – 1234 ·
Secure connection (SMTP) – (tick it) ·
Retrieve server type – POP3 ·
POP3 server – pop.gmail.com ·
POP3 port – 995 ·
Same ID and password – (tick it) ·
APOP login – (DON’T tick) ·
Secure connection(POP3) – (tick it)
Press "Ok/I" to save settings.
Now go back to ‘current account’
and select the above account there. Again go back. In Receiving
options – ·
Check interval – If you select, say, ‘ 3
hour’, your e-mails will be retrieved every 3 hour
and you will be informed by a message. Select
‘not used’ if you don’t want to
check mails automatically. ·
Retrieve option – normal ·
Download limit – 300kb(recommended) ·
Keep in server – (tick it)
Save and go back to e-mail profiles. Select your
network from the
‘current profile’ list. If it is not
included, go to ‘profile settings’
and edit any of the given settings. Only your service provider can
provide the
correct settings-APN, id and password.
This need not
be same as the
WAP settings. After saving the correct settings, back to ‘current
profile’ and select the saved settings there.
Now it’s all done!! Go to my messages/e-mail inbox
and select ‘check new mail’.
Your mails will be retrieved. Besides this, if you have selected
1hr/3hr/6hr… in receiving options of e-mail
settings, e-mails will be automatically retrieved in that
interval. You may go to sound settings/message tone
and select a different tone for e-mail for easy identification.
To SEND e-mails, go to messages/create message/e-mail.
To set up another Gmail account, go to ‘account
settings’ and from options select, ‘create’.
Mails to all accounts will be retrieved automatically. When you send an
e-mail, the SELECTED account in
‘e-mail account>current account’
is used.
