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By default, you may have some email settings provided by you network provider, but ignore

them for now – you can always find them again later. Highlight Account Settings and press
Select , then scroll up to Create new account and press Add.

 First enter an account name, for example type ‘Gmail’. Now press OK.
 Now you’ll neeed those details you found out earlier on. Highlight E-mail address and
press Select. Enter your full email address for this account. Press OK .
 Highlight Connect using and press Select. Select your mobile network provider from the
list and press Select. If you are unsure of which is the right one, contact your network
provider, but normally you should be looking for the same option as you use to connect
to the web, for example: Vodafone GPRS .
 Connection Type should already be set to POP3 by default, but if not, press Select,
highlight POP3 and press Select .
 Highlight Incoming server and enter the Incoming server address you found out earlier. It
should look similar to a website address .
 Highlight Username and press Select. Enter the username provided by your email
provider and press OK .
 Highlight Password and press Select. Enter your ordinary email password and press OK .
 Highlight Download and press Select . This lets you decide how much of your email will
be downloaded. By default it should be set to Header and Text, but to save more money
on data fees, you can highlight Header only and press Select . You can also limit how
much of the email is downloaded by pressing Size limit. Enter a number of less than 200
to reduce the number of kb downloaded.
 Go back and highlight Check Interval and press Select . This lets you choose whether you
want the phone to automatically check for new emails at regular intervals of 5 minutes,
half an hour, an hour… all the way up to every 12 hours. Or you can leave it set to Off,
allowing you to do it manually and save on data fees. Press the Back button to return to
the Account settings menu.
 If you want, you can set up an outgoing server so you can send emails as well as receive
them. If you don’t want to do this right now, you can skip the next few steps.
 To set up outgoing emails, highlight Outgoing server and press Select. Enter the outgoing
server address given to you by your email provider and press OK .
 Highlight Username, press Select and enter the same information as you did previously
for Username. Now press OK.
 Highlight Password, press Select and enter the same information as you did for
previously for Password. This is your ordinary email password again. Now press OK.
 You can choose to enter your name and a signature by scrolling down and highlighting
Your name and Signature and pressing Select.
 Some email provider may use encryption, so you can set this up by highlighting
Encryption and pressing Select . Choose the type of encryption your email provider
requires for both incoming and outgoing mail and press Select. Normally, you’ll need to
select SSL for each, although it may vary between providers. If in doubt, leave blank or
check with your email provider.
 Highlight Incoming port and press Select . By default this should be set to 110, but
different email providers may require different port settings. If in doubt, check with your
email provider. Press OK.
 Highlight Outgoing port and press Select . By default this should be set to 25, but
different email providers may require different port settings. If in doubt, check with your
email provider. Press OK.
 Last of all, press Done to finish the setup. This will return you to the Account setting
menu. Highlight the account name you made in step on

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