Sony Ericsson P910i Email tab, To create a new email account

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The Messaging accounts dialog has four tabs, one for each type of messaging account:

Email You can have any number of email accounts. To receive and send email, you must first set up an Internet account (if one is not already set up). See ‘Internet accounts’ on page 155.

SMS You can only have one SMS (Short Message Service) account.The settings on this tab also apply to EMS (Extended Message Service) messages.

MMS You can only have one MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) account. To receive MMS messages you must first set up Internet and WAP accounts (if not already set up). See‘Internet accounts’ on page 155.

Area You can only have one Area info account. The number of Area Information channels that you can subscribe to is limited by the space on your SIM.

Tip A simple way of setting up an email or multimedia message account is to ask your service provider to send you a message that contains the required information to create an account automatically on your P910i.

Read more about the different types of messages in ‘Messages’ on page 87.

Email tab

The Email tab shows a list of the email accounts on your P910i.You can add a New account to the list and Edit or Delete an existing account.

You can choose one of your email accounts as Preferred. This will be the email account that your P910i uses when you use Send as to send an entry as email directly from one of your P910i applications

To create a new email account

1.On the Email tab, select New.

2.Enter the following settings on the tabs:

Email account basic tab settings

Account name This is the name you give to your email account.

Your name This name appears on your outgoing email messages.

Email address Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) supplies you with your email address.

Connection type Select POP3 or IMAP. POP3 is most common. IMAP makes it possible to subscribe to server based folders.

Internet account Select the Internet account to access your email messages.

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