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How to: Configure a Gmail Account on your S60 device
Posted in: How to's | By: Dario Soltani | Date: July 27th, 2007

Here is the short tutorial which allows your to configure Gmail (Google mail) account on N95, N73 etc.
You must enable POP3 access to your Gmail Account. Look inside Setting and POP forwarding Options on Gmail web site.

  1. Open Messaging Application
  2. Goto Mail box. It asks you "No mailbox defined. Define now?" Choose Yes
  3. Mailbox setup wizard will start. Press start to continue
  4. Mailbox Type choose POP3, press Next
  5. On next screen type your email address xxx@gmail.com, press Next
  6. Enter pop.gmail.com as Incoming mail server, Press Next
  7. Enter smtp.gmail.com as Outgoing mail server, Press Next
  8. Access Point, choose Always ask or your preferred one. press next
  9. In Mailbox name keep Gmail press next
  10. Click Finish
  11. Click Option and then Settings
  12. Choose E-mail
  13. Choose Mailboxes and then on Gmail
  14. Choose Connection settings
  15. Choose Incoming e-mail
  16. Enter Username as xxx@gmail.com
  17. In Password type your password
  18. Scroll down to security port and choose SSL/TLS
  19. Press Back Button
  20. Select Outgoing e-mail, enter your username and password as described above
  21. Scroll down to security port and choose SSL/TLS
  22. Hit Back Button twice
  23. Choose User settings
  24. Enter your name or whatever you want to display and then go back
  25. Goto Retrieval Settings
  26. Choose E-mail to retrieve and change it to size limit and then enter 100KB or whatever you like in next screen. Press OK
  27. Choose Back
  28. If you have unlimited GPRS connection, choose Automatic retrieval and change it otherwise leave as it is.
  29. Click back button multiple times so that you are back to main screen.
  30. Now when you start Messaging Application you will see Gmail Account, goto it and retrieve your email.

This also enables you to attach files, making it possible to send images and other stuff! If you find this guide to complicated, you could always download the Java Gmail reader here.


How should I use POP on mobile or multiple devices?

If you’re accessing your Gmail using POP from multiple clients, Gmail’s recent mode makes sure that all messages are made available to each client, rather than only to the first client to access new mail.

Recent mode fetches the last 30 days of mail, regardless of whether it’s been sent to another POP client already.

If you sign in to Gmail using your Blackberry, you’re signed in to recent mode automatically. For all other POP clients, replace ‘username@gmail.com’ in your POP client settings with ‘recent:username@gmail.com’.

Via Google Help

The above recent mode settings should also solve the problem with sent e-mail ending up in your inbox.


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5 Responses to “How to: Configure a Gmail Account on your S60 device”

  1. Mike Says:
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    Nice turorial, but how do you keep gmail from downloading your sent email into the inbox?

  2. Dario Says:
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    One other thing people, if you are fetching pop e-mails from 2 different clients like your computer and your mobile you probably run into some trouble with mail either ending up on your computer or your mobile, not both…

    There is a solution to this problem, you simply put in "recent:" in front of your username on all clients… "recent:username@gmail.com"

  3. Dario Says:
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    hey Mike, I’ve added a solution to you problem. You should use recent mode when checking your Gmail. Read more in the updated article.

  4. Bob Says:
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    Thanks for the info!
    Only on my E50 it won’t work :( I have everything set up as mentioned here above, but when I’m going to connect it takes my E50 for ages. What can be the problem?

  5. Dario Soltani Says:
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    Hi Bob. Why not try the Gmail application? It’s free and works good. Try browsing to http://mobile.google.com in your phones browser.

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