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M600i Setting Up Internet, Email and MMS 63
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Your email service provider provides you with
the detailed email account information you
must now enter.
Basic tab
Account name – give the account a name
for your own reference (for example
Home or Office).
Your name – enter the name you want to
appear on your outgoing messages.
Email address – this is your email address
as supplied by your email service
provider. The address always contains the
@ character.
Connection type – POP3 and IMAP are
connection protocols used when receiving
email from the email server. POP3 is the
most common. IMAP has expanded
functionality. For example, it makes it
possible to subscribe to server-based
folders. Ask your email service provider
which protocol it supports.
Allow IMAP idle – if you have an IMAP
account, your phone can check for new
messages in your server mailbox. If there
are new messages, they will be
downloaded to your phone.
Inbox tab
Incoming server address – enter the
name or IP address of your email service
provider’s server for incoming email
messages. This address identifies the
computer where your incoming email
messages are stored. Common formats are
pop.example.org and 123.123.123.123.
Username and Password – your email
service provider supplies you with a
username and password for your email
account.
Download restrictions – select this to set
rules for how messages will be
downloaded and how many messages can
be stored in your Inbox. To limit the
amount of data, you can choose to receive
Just headers (the sender, subject, and
date only) or set a size limit using Emails
smaller than
(if a message is larger than
the limit, only the headers are
downloaded). You will be prompted to
download the rest of a message when you
open it.
Smaller than – enter the message size
limit, if you have selected Emails smaller
than
.
Limit number of messages – select this to
limit the total number of messages held in
your phone's Inbox at any given time. If
your Inbox is full and you download a
new message, the oldest message in your
Inbox will be removed from your phone.
However, the message header will remain
in your Inbox and the entire message on
the server.
Limit is set to – enter a numerical limit for
messages in your Inbox, if you have
selected
Limit number of messages
above.
Receive using group – select which
Internet group account you want to use to
connect to the email server for incoming
email messages. If you select
Preferred