Today I was playing with Gmail and decided to try their IMAP service with my phone (Sony Ericsson S710a). Google has the imap details listed right on their web page, so I thought it would be straight forward enough. BUT it wasn’t as easy as it sounded. In case I forget, or anyone else is trying to do the same thing, this is what I did to get it working. My phone’s email settings are:
- Connect Using: Media Net
- Protocol: IMAP4
- Incoming Server: imap.gmail.com
- Incoming Port: 993
- Encryption:
- Incoming Server TLS/SSL, Domain: imap.gmail.com
- Outgoing Server: No encryption
- Mailbox: myusername@gmail.com
- Password: mygmailpw
- Outgoing Mail Server: My own smtp server
- Outgoing Port: 25
- Email Address: myemailaddress
- Download: Headers Only
I also needed to download the appropriate certificates that were not already on my phone and send them over via bluetooth. I found a mention of this in a post here. And the download link is here. I was unable to get google’s smtp server to work, and apparently I am not the only one, so I’m just using my own smtp server elsewhere for outgoing mail.. this seems to be working for me. I’m able to send/receive email from my phone, yay.
