Hi all 😊
Does someone tried to succesful configure an SSL account (gmail for example) in the mail settings?
If the default Sendo client is not able to handle this( i think that the Security option is for SSL access)... perhaps you can give some advice of what to use ( I have read something about Profimail �?)
Thanks!
morph wrote:
Does someone tried to succesful configure an SSL account (gmail for example) in the mail settings?If the default Sendo client is not able to handle this( i think that the Security option is for SSL access)... perhaps you can give some advice of what to use ( I have read something about Profimail �?)
Thanks!
As far as i know, Messaging is not able to connect to Gmail. This is because Gmail uses SSL, custom ports and a certificate from a somewhat unkown company that is not trusted by default on any device or computer. A workaround is to create a another account on a Webmail provider that provides normal POP3 access, set your gmal account to forward all incoming emails to this new account and set the Reply To field in your new account to your gmail email address. This way, you'll be able to check your mails on your phone through this new email account. Whenever you'll send an email from your phone, it's gonna be sent though this new email account but when people will reply, they'll reply to your gmail account.
ProfiMail seems to support Gmail but it's quite expensive. Well worth the money if you are using email on your phone extensively though.
elp - can you elaborate a little more on profimail? what settings have you used to get gmail working with it? i have not been able to get it to work 😞
The built-in messaging application for Series 60 is unfortunately quite bad at handling SSL connections to mailboxes, it's something which affect all Series 60 phones, not just the X.
I've heard Profimail can access Gmail, but I haven't seen anyone actually get it working yet. If I get a copy of it, I'll have a go and see what I can come up with 😊
Mordred 660 wrote:elp - can you elaborate a little more on profimail? what settings have you used to get gmail working with it? i have not been able to get it to work 😞
I have not really done extensive experimentation so far, only had my phone for a few days but here are the settings i am using:
Mail Server type: POP3
Incoming mail server: pop.gmail.com
Outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com
Advanced Settings:
Secure POP3 login: unchecked
SMTP authentication: checked
SMTP username / password: leave blank
POP3 port: 995
SMTP port: 465
Use SSL for POP3: checked
Use SSL for SMTP: checked
It seems to be half working: whenever you check your email, profimail says "Initializing", asks you if you want to accept the untrusted certificate, says "Logging in" and then send or retrieves your emails.
Sending emails works fine. Retieving email header kind of works. It looks like gmail is only sending headers if they have not been retrieved via POP3 before. This means that if you've got outllook on your PC running 24/7 and retrieving your emails automatically, you'll never get them on your phone. On the other side, if you retrieve emails on your phone, you won't be able to have them in Outlook since Gmail is going to assume that you have already downloaded them.
Another even more problematic behaviour is that if you set Profimail to retrieve the headers only, whenver you'll click on the header to retrieve the body, profimail connects to Gmail and then displays "No messages" (since Gmail says that there are no more emails) and then it empties all your mailbox on the phone so you loose all the headers that you had downloaded. Strange but there must be a way to configure Gmail and profimail to work properly though. I just have no time at the moment to investigate this problem.
elp wrote:I have not really done extensive experimentation so far, only had my phone for a few days but here are the settings i am using:
And of course you also have to enable POP3 access in your Gmail account settings. I think that it is disabled by default.
It sounds like you might be correct in that only new (unread) emails will get flagged for download.
elp wrote:And of course you also have to enable POP3 access in your Gmail account settings. I think that it is disabled by default.
yep!
it�s disable by default
@elp - excellent solution. i now have it running (until i try and download the message from the header 😞 )! thank you very much.
mods - this configuration should be a sticky here
Hi,
stuclark wrote:The built-in messaging application for Series 60 is unfortunately quite bad at handling SSL connections to mailboxes, it's something which affect all Series 60 phones, not just the X.
TLS to an imap server works for me. It does mention that my certificate is not of a known CA, but hey, that I already knew when I made it myself 😊
Also, I have not verified this using a packet sniffer, I think it does tls via smtp.
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is it just me, or do messages keep showing as "new" after you log off then log back on to your gmail account via profimail? what i mean is that i can download the headers, then download the body - but once i exit out of the program and come back in, the body that i downloaded does not show. it shows it as a header only... am i missing something?
Mordred 660 wrote:is it just me, or do messages keep showing as "new" after you log off then log back on to your gmail account via profimail? what i mean is that i can download the headers, then download the body - but once i exit out of the program and come back in, the body that i downloaded does not show. it shows it as a header only... am i missing something?
I can't say since i've never been able to retrieve the body of an email. How did you do that? Are you retrieving the headers, then clicking on a header the get the body?
yes - exactly