Ever since I bought my Motorola A780 I realised its Email Client is useless for GMail. That’s because it doesn’t support SSL which is required for GMail. I quickly downloaded the GMail app and installed it giving me access to GMail. I was happy for a while.
The GMail app gives you the basic features needed, but it misses a few essential ones. For eg. you can’t send attachments. So basically if you took a Photo with your phone camera the only way to get it online would be to transfer it via USB or Bluetooth (The MMS service is just too slow. It took a day to deliver a simple test email to my inbox. [AIRTEL] )
Googling around I managed to find a work around. I use another mail service which doesn’t require a SSL authentication – hotPOP. Using this service you can create an Email account and use it to send Email with attachments from your Motorola A780 Email client. Of course, this will be another Email address. There is free account available but it comes with restrictions. For those who don’t won’t to check another Email account, you can enable mail forwarding to your current most frequently used Inbox – in my case GMail.
Agreed this is not the most convenient method , but hey , it works.
Aah… That takes me way back… HotPOP i.e., not that other stuff you were blabbering on about!
I guess I was pretty much one of their first few customers back in ‘98 (along with the rest of my folks for whom I sat and registered IDs one by one on a painfully slow net connection), and shockingly, I still use that e-mail ID! Only thing I hate though is the limit on attachment size and no. of recipients, but other than that, it was one of the few who still provided a free POP account when most else went boom or bust (remember USA.net?) or paid (Yahoo et al) during the net bubble meltdown of the ’90s.
Is tat how u sent the photo to my gmail.. using some “game*” mail id?
@Ravenent
I never heard of hotPOP that is until a few days ago.
@robin
Yep..they let you choose your domain. I chose gamebox.net .
Yeah right!
And send your credentials in plaintext. Huh!
p.s. Don’t bother counter attck. I just wrote it for the sake of ridiculing you.
Hey .. I know about the security issue..but am willing to live with it.
I get an host not found error when using this hotpop deal. Not working very well for me. Otherwise i have my a780 working like a charm
@Randal
Do you have GPRS enabled. Can you browse the net from your phone ? Maybe you got the settings wrong ?
What are the gprs settings for t-mobile (in full)
my internet and mms works fine….but i cant send/receive ANY email from any address andy server period. all i get is “host not found”
@duke
I wouldn’t know. I don’t have t-mobile. I am based out of India.