Why can't Messaging let me choose my Access point each time?
Applications, Communications Series 80Q. When connecting up with Web on my Nokia 9500, I get given the choice of all my different access points (dial-up, GPRS, Easy WLAN, etc.), but when connecting up using Messaging to get my email, it only ever uses the one I set up in 'Tools | Account settings | General | Internet access'. Why can't Messaging offer the same flexibility as Web?
A. A very interesting question and one that highlights a choice the designers of the 9500 had to face. If they'd put in a generic 'choose your access point' dialog for Messaging, you'd have had to manually select something before the connection could be made to your POP3 mail server. In other words, an extra keypress or two and a few more seconds delay. As it stands, email can be collected with a single keypress ('Retrieve e-mail'), which is remarkably convenient for anyone checking email more than a handful of times per day. As a bonus, by tying a specific Internet access point to each email account, the correct SMTP servers can also be defined, avoiding some of the common problems encountered when trying to send email using a SMTP server other than the one operated by your network provider.
If your access point changes regularly (e.g. moving from Wi-Fi at home to GPRS when out and about), you can set up these in the 'Roaming' tab, along with the SMTP servers to use for each.