Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Get Gmail on your PDA or mobile phone usuando POP3
The email service Gmail has proven to be one of the best among the free, and maybe the trade, with all its features: an excellent spam filter, almost 3Gb of storage, a fast and functional web interface using AJAX, managing mails stored using tags, and even integration of a small web instant messaging system to chat with our contacts connected, and so on
Within this comes a feature so that it becomes really useful: the ability to access our emails using POP3, a protocol used by all mail clients like Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook, etc, and we'll never have to enter through the interface web, or manage multiple mail accounts at the same client. And of course, our Palm also have the option of using both Windows Mobile (for example with Outlook Mobile) and PalmOS (eg VersaMail). It all comes down to properly configure our account:
Empowering the POP3 protocol in our Gmail account
- We access our Gmail account.
- We're going to "Settings", which appears at the top of any Gmail page.
- We click on "Forwarding and POP 'at the table orange" Settings ".
- Select "Enable POP for all mail" or "Enable POP for mail that arrives from now."
- We choose the action you want to perform Gmail messages once we have agreed to them via the POP protocol.
- Finally we click on Save Changes.
With this we will have our mail account configured to be accessed by POP3, then logically we have to configure the client from which we read our mail from Gmail. The data for the configuration are as follows:
| Parameter | Asset |
| Mail server (POP3) | pop.gmail.com |
| Using SSL | Yes |
| Puerto | 995 |
| Outgoing mail server (SMTP) | smtp.gmail.com |
| Use Authentication | Yes |
| Use STARTTLS (some clients call this SSL) | Yes |
| Puerto | 465 or 587 |
| Account Name | Your Gmail username (incluido@gmail.com) |
| Email Address | Your e-mail full Gmail (nombredeusuario@gmail.com) |
| Password | Your Gmail password |
For example, to configure Versamail, which comes installed by default on many teams with PalmOS, the basic configuration is as follows:
Basic setup for Gmail using POP3 in Versamail
After introducing these basic facts of our own, we must properly configure your mail servers both incoming and outgoing:
Configuring servers incoming and outgoing mail from Gmail
To configure Outlook Mobile, which comes installed by default on Windows Mobile, the process is similar:
Setting up access to Gmail in Outlook Mobile
- Let's Start> Messaging> Menu ">" Tools ">" New Account ".
- We introduce our e-mail account (@ gmail.com). In the configuration automatically, we expect the state to pass "Connecting" to "Completed".
- Click Next. Key in your name, user name and password.
- Click Next. We make sure we have chosen type POP3.
- Click Next. We write to mail "pop.gmail.com: 995." For outbound mail typed "smtp.gmail.com: 465."
- Click on "Finish" and if we want our mail and downloaded for this account. To download our mail when we are going to want to Menu> Send / Receive. "
A trick that many people find useful is to redirect all mail from Gmail to another mail account that already had, to receive all mail in the same account. The are:
- Enter our Gmail account (via the Web, of course). Select "Settings" at the top of the page.
- Select "Forwarding and POP 'in the window of orange mail settings. Within this section, select "Send copy of mail received" and choose what account will be sent this copy.
Finally, if we do not want to use a mail client, we can always read our mail from Gmail from our smartphone or PDA through the web interface of Gmail mobile.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Tricks
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Okay, but what I do is step that could not send mails because I was waiting to timeout response from the server. But changes to pop.gmail.com 62,233,163,109 and finally I could ... (this is the ip address)
Enjoy!
Hello John, if you worked with the IP but not with the server name, may be because they do not have configured the address of the DNS on the Palm. Are you logging to other sites without problems?
Lie, that is not the IP address of pop.gmail.com, the IP that are writing is one of the many servers behind a load balancer, so you do every ping you back a different IP within the segment that they acquired.
Definitely this mistaken your DNS settings on your Palm, or the DNS wrote that this failing.
Well, yeah, man, is a Virtual IP ALTEON or a similar balancing the load between servers sendmail / postfix / whatever, which is giving the POP3 service to its customers, as in any ISP or similar platform, but I do not think you have to go to both the level of detail to understand each other.
Moreover, it does not necessarily change each time. For example in ALTEON, it becomes a balancing traffic looking at OSI 3 and even 4, but for customers is something totally transparent, that is, no returns a different IP each time you connect, but the request is cached, initiating a session-style firewalls, and is the ALTEON which is responsible for dealing with what server connects each customer. And for rizxar the loop, can make all the clients always see the same IP, the Virtual IP.
In short, what is important is that you have to configure DNS to avoid having to put that IP bareback.
Well guys, tell them that I wanted to use the long VersaMail until incluyso I subscribed to several pages that provide e-mail "free" (without knowing the gmail before) so most just allowed me to download my mail, but not ... send it. So after much searching, I saw in the tecnopalm a tuo, where you say it does not work if the pop.gmail.com then enter the address or as they call, 62,233,163,109 and so I did, and I worked. I am now subscribed to imap.cc to lower my hotmail .... The truth at the beginning I thought it was a mistake passwords, etc. etcf and after attempts and a thousand hours of Internet achieves this direction SUBMIT mails ..
A greeting, Juan
so of the pages, "you do not understand, but if you mean that under my mail from other accounts, of course I do, even from imap.cc, which is where my discharge mail hotmail.
Thanks for the information, but I have VersaMail 3.1 and the list of suppliers already appears US-Gmail, this is a matter of selecting the supplier, put your email and password, without having to configure servers