Palm Tungsten T5 About email accounts, Account and connection types, Using an email provider

CHAPTER 15 Sending and Receiving Email Messages

About email accounts

The VersaMail application is software that lets you access email on your handheld from an account with an email provider (such as Earthlink or Yahoo!) or from your corporate email account. For each email account you want to access, you must set up an account on your handheld. For example, if you have an Earthlink account and a corporate account, set up one account for each. You can create up to eight email accounts on your handheld.

[ ! ] IMPORTANT You must have an account with an email provider or a corporate account. The

VersaMail application works with these accounts to transfer messages to your handheld. The application is not an email service provider.

Account and connection types

You can set up two types of email accounts on your handheld:

Wireless Send and receive email directly to and from your handheld using the built-in

Bluetooth® technology or by positioning the IR port on your handheld so that it can beam to the

IR port on your mobile phone.

Synchronize Only (Windows computers only) Transfer messages from the email application on your computer (such as Microsoft Outlook) to your handheld by synchronizing. You can’t send and receive messages wirelessly for this type of account.

Using an email provider

If you are setting up a new email account and have a well-known email provider (Internet service provider, or ISP) such as Earthlink or Yahoo!, many of the required settings during the account setup are automatically configured.

For other ISPs, you need the following information:

•The protocol used for incoming mail, such as Post Office Protocol (POP) or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)

•The name of the incoming mail server

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