How to setup your mobile phone to recieve email alerts (for Nokia)

                        You can read or write emails from your mobile phone without any phone browsers (wap/web) by following this post. All the gprs enabled mobile handsets of Nokia comes up with an email client which is similar to outlook express or evolution or thunderbird but with basic inbox features such as sending and receiving only. Inorder to get this client working properly you should have a gprs /edge connection to get connected to the pop server.

I started setting up my email client of Nokia 5200, which is a java based mobile phone. This tip is possible in almost all the java phones. The email  client in this phone has 3 custom folders, an archive folder and a junk folder..

Activating the email  account 

1.  From the Menu select the Messaging option. Scroll down the list to find the E-mail option. 

2.  Select the new account option to start. Then the phone will ask for email service that you have. Multiple accounts are possible. Let select the gmail now. Enter your account details in the text boxes. Dont append the @gmail at the end of the username.

3.  On the next window you have to enter the incoming and outgoing sever information...

Incoming server

servertype: POP

servername: pop.gmail.com

incoming username: your_username@gmail.com

Outgoing serever

servername: smtp.gmail.com

username & password : select the option 'same as the incoming '

4.  On the next window the phone will ask for retrieval settings. On the secure login option check the radio of 'automatic option'. This will prompt for the password when start retrieving the emails. Click on the OK button to complete the current step.

5.  You can add the signature portion to each of the email by clicking the optional advanced setting. Press OK to complete the settings and to start receiving email on your phone without any wap/web browsers.