Help - New person needs help.

[foggy92]

Hi all,
Recently joined the world of PDA's after realising the smartphones werent really that smart or good at anything, just average at a bit of everything.

Got myself and MDA iii which is on my t-mobile contract. I also have a google mail account.

I've managed to set up my PDA to receive my gmail emails but I can't send, every time it's saying "Unable to connect to the outgoing mail server. Verify the server name is correcnt, then try again to send and receive mail."

But I'm receiving mail. Can anyone help. I'm glad I got this far to be honest, I'm a complete techno muppet normally!!!

Help:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[HDuser]

Mail has two sides to it, sending and receiving.

If you get your mail your pop settings are fine
If you dont get your mail your SMTP settings are NOT Fine.

Inorder that users do not use a smtp server for releying mail many porividers block the sending of mails if you are not on there network or need you to authenticate on that server.

here is a home example.

My PDA is connected over wifi to a ADSL from my internet provider FASTNET
My pop mail I get over wifi (thus the ADSL) from my pop provder POPMAIL.

Thus I am no the FASTnet Network and need to send via FASTNET smtp.
If I try to send over POPMAIL it wont work as it is blocked by POPMAIL as I am comming from a differnet network (that of FASTMAIL).

So set up your account over your network provider.

Hope that helps

[CJBS]

You could also try the Gmail App midlet for checking/searching/sending mail. Go to gmail.com/app (http://gmail.com/app) on your PDA, and try it out. You use the Midlet Manager to run it.