Nokia E51 - certainly the best phone I've ever owned. However, it does have some issues, one of which I was hoping was just my (lack of) understanding about how it's supposed to work...
If you go to Messaging -> Options -> Settings -> E-mail and pick a POP or IMAP profile you've previously setup and go to "Automatic retrieval" there are two, mutually exclusive options "E-mail notifications" and "E-mail retrieval." You can only pick one or the other (on my T-Mobile E51 anyway) provided that the other option is DISABLED. The options for "E-mail notifications" are "Auto-update", "Only in home netw." and "Disabled" and the options for "E-mail retrieval" are "Enabled", "Only in home netw." and "Disabled."
If I enable "E-mail notifications" because I want to be notified when I get an e-mail and then, logically, try to enable "Auto-Retrieval" I get an error "E-mail notifications setting must be disabled to enable e-mail retrieval settings!" Surely I want auto-retrieval on (so the E51 gets my e-mail periodically) AND e-mail notification on so I get notified when new e-mail is received?
These settings obviously don't do what I think they do?
"Auto-retrieval" had to be enabled in order to select how often you want the phone to auto-retrieve e-mail so if you have it disabled and it's not auto-retrieving e-mail then surely you don't need e-mail notification, 'cos you won't be receiving any new e-mails!?!?!
Incidentally, what exactly IS the "home network?" How is this defined? I've taken it to mean my home WiFi connection but how does the phone decide what the home network is? I can't find an explicit setting for this?
Thanks for listening.