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Okay.. I have read and read and my eyes are bleeding!
In WM5, I could specify the smtp port in Pocket Outlook by adding the port number to the end of the smtp server (i.e. smtp.blahblah.com:27)
For some reason when I set this in WM6 (Black 1.2) it still tries to connect to port 25. I have verified this behavior as I admin the mailserver I am trying to connect to.
So.. Am I missing something or is this broken in WM6?
Regards
try using cwmx.com as your smtp server. you are on cingular right?
spiritofseth said:
try using cwmx.com as your smtp server. you are on cingular right?
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Actually, I know I can use Cingular's smtp server but I would rather use my own as it's more secure and I can debug any delivery errors.
dbaser said:
Actually, I know I can use Cingular's smtp server but I would rather use my own as it's more secure and I can debug any delivery errors.
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I had a similar problem and it was not WM6 but rather the ISP connection. Using a non standard SMTP port (gmail) through WIFI works fine specifying the addressort in the account config. The same with T-mobile service gets blocked.
In my case it is not a WM6 issue.
mfabre said:
I had a similar problem and it was not WM6 but rather the ISP connection. Using a non standard SMTP port (gmail) through WIFI works fine specifying the addressort in the account config. The same with T-mobile service gets blocked.
In my case it is not a WM6 issue.
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Well.. It worked last week in WM5 flawlessly. And when I set the port to 27 I see the phone connect on the SMTP server to port 25 as if it just disregards the port number and connects to 25 no matter what.
Really strange. Perhaps is the ROM release? I am using VSWM from 03/20. I just tested again and my authenticated SMTP to smtp.gmail.com on port 587 are going out without problems.
Let us know if you find the problem.
Just tested using WiFi and it tried port 25 even tho 27 is specified. Naturally my ISP blocks 25 so it borks out. Something is amiss here... maybe a registry setting? Maybe someone can check HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Svc\ and see if there is a SMTP setting. Or maybe the mailtrans.dll has 25 hard-coded in the ROM I am using?
*shrug*
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Maybe someone can check HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Svc\ and see if there is a SMTP setting.
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No SMTP key in mine. In fact, I did search the registry for the gmail smtp information and could not find it. It seems to be stored somewhere else.
Ugh!
So... I deleted and recreated the email account...
And it WORKS now!!! I say WTF ever
Thanks for all the input peeps... much appreciated.
-db
Change to SMTP Port number REQUIRES a new account in WM6
I scoured the next beforehand and discovered that you can't simply tack on a ":XXX" port number to your SMTP server. it actually requires that you delete the account and re-create it with the port number string.
I figured this out once before, but then of course, forgot it and when setting up my email on my new Dutty 6.1 rom (r0xors!), learned the hard way again.
Hope this helps,
-Humbert
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it actually requires that you delete the account and re-create it with the port number string.
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Thanks Humbert! This did the trick for me on my Polaris and for my colleague on his Tytn II.
Regards, Wouter
deechte said:
Thanks Humbert! This did the trick for me on my Polaris and for my colleague on his Tytn II.
Regards, Wouter
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Cool. Glad to have helped out.
-Humbert
there's no need to erase the account, just go to the email settings on pocket outlook and ad ":xx" the outgoing server. example "mysmtp.com:27"
worked fot me in my htc touch.
I have been trying to get my 8525 to do OTA Push Mail from our corporate Exchange 2003 SP2 server here where I work. I am the admin so I have access to the Exchange server and all settings are correct on the server itself to deal with OMA.
I can use the web browser of my 8525 and actually browse to our server and view both OWA and OMA directly, but when I configure the server through Activesync it always comes back with error code 80072ee7 (server name not resolved) error.
I am running vp3g's official v3 AT&T rom, and radio 1.48 if that matters. But here's where I think my problem lies and maybe someone with more experience regarding this can correct me if I'm wrong. We are running our OWA site on a high port number above 50000. We also have the OWA site under a subdirectory of the server. When I configure the server in Activesync, I enter the servername, port number and path to the OWA site, but once AS fails and I look at the server setting I find that it has dumped any path information and only keeps the server name and port number info.
So am I correct in assuming that M$ direct push only works with a server where the OWA site exists off the root directory of the IIS server? Or can it support paths into the site?
Actually push email relies on the Microsoft-Server-Activesync web application, and has little to do with OWA/OMA. I seem to recall that specifying port numbers and/or directory paths won't work though... May I ask why you're running the Exchange web services in such an unusual manner? Are you hosting other sites in that same IIS server as well?
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Actually push email relies on the Microsoft-Server-Activesync web application, and has little to do with OWA/OMA. I seem to recall that specifying port numbers and/or directory paths won't work though... May I ask why you're running the Exchange web services in such an unusual manner? Are you hosting other sites in that same IIS server as well?
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Actually that's the way it was set up before I started with the company. We have outside sales people that use the site and they felt it would be slightly more secure if it wasn't sitting on port 80 like most web sites. The boss won't let me change the port number at this time.
So activesync on the 8525 won't allow a port number? I thought it would because it keeps that in the server config info it'll dump any path info, but I figured out the path was not needed after a little tweaking. I just can't do anything about the port at this time.
I'm with kltye... don't think push has much (if anything) to do with OWA/OMA. It runs over port 443 (https). I believe it actually starts on port 80 (http) then switches to 443, but I'll spare you the ugly details on that one. Only need to know that for firewall config purposes.
Drop the port # and path and see how that goes.
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Actually that's the way it was set up before I started with the company. We have outside sales people that use the site and they felt it would be slightly more secure if it wasn't sitting on port 80 like most web sites. The boss won't let me change the port number at this time.
So activesync on the 8525 won't allow a port number? I thought it would because it keeps that in the server config info it'll dump any path info, but I figured out the path was not needed after a little tweaking. I just can't do anything about the port at this time.
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Security through obscurity eh?
I'm with vp3g as well: doesn't the https site run over 443? If it doesn't, maybe you can create a new Website and use the same settings as the original Exchange-Activesync web app, but have it listen on 443 for https. Are you able (i.e. "have permission") to open up port 443 on your corporate firewall?
Just did a quick perusal of my Exchange Server... appears as though push is an extension of OMA. If you don't have a Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync virtual directory off the Default Web Site (or some site listening on ports 80 & 443), you may be hosed.
Possibly related, but do you have a trusted SSL cert installed on the server? Without that, you might have a problem connecting.
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Just did a quick perusal of my Exchange Server... appears as though push is an extension of OMA. If you don't have a Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync virtual directory off the Default Web Site (or some site listening on ports 80 & 443), you may be hosed.
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Yeah that's what I figured. I have the ActiveSync virtual directory within the Default Website along with OMA, but the server is listening on ports 60000 & 443 rather than the typical port 80.
You would think there would be a registry hack for AS on the mobile device whereby you could specify a non-standard port for syncing.
TaurusBullba, to answer your question. We don't have a cert (yet) for the Exchange server. That however doesn't matter for normal http connections, only if I attempt to use port 443 as the connect point for AS. Before the year is out, we'll more than likely acquire a cert for that server as well as our http server, but at the moment. I got nothing.
Inline........
Codevyper said:
Yeah that's what I figured. I have the ActiveSync virtual directory within the Default Website along with OMA, but the server is listening on ports 60000 & 443 rather than the typical port 80.
60000 is probably the killer as I noted earlier that push starts on 80 and jumps to 443.
You would think there would be a registry hack for AS on the mobile device whereby you could specify a non-standard port for syncing.
I think it was built around 80/443 to avoid client-side firewall issues.
TaurusBullba, to answer your question. We don't have a cert (yet) for the Exchange server. That however doesn't matter for normal http connections, only if I attempt to use port 443 as the connect point for AS. Before the year is out, we'll more than likely acquire a cert for that server as well as our http server, but at the moment. I got nothing.
You can do a "self-signed" certificate (i.e., generated by Windows Server) at zero cost. Downside is that it must be exported, copied to the device and installed.
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Inline........
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Thanks for the help everyone. We will be building a new Exchange server later this year and I'll push to throw the site back on 80 at that time. In the meantime, I'll try the self-signed cert and see if that gets me in. Thanks everyone for your help! This site is a great resource for WinMo newbies like myself. BTW vp3g... lovin your AT&T v3 ROM. Solid and no problems overall!
BTW, I don't think ActiveSync starts off with port 80 - I was running a personal Exchange server off my cable connection whose incoming port 80 is blocked and everything worked fine using only 443. Good luck with the setup!
Hi,
I'm having some problems with default Mail application of Android under HTC Desire for sending mails through my personal mail server.
I host my own mail server with SMTP Authentication but *only* with Android Mail application it seems to ignore username/password I provided under the account settings so no authenticated session is done on the mail server and this one reject the client because of this. SASL Authentication is properly working with other clients (Windows mobile pocket outlook, Thunderbird 2 or 3, Outlook ...etc)
Do you have such other similar experience/problem with SMTP Auth within Android 2.1 please ?
Thanks by advance,
laurent
Hi, i'm having the same problem using the corporate SMTP server (which works for everyone else). Might be a bug on the email app?
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hi !
thks for your reply, now i know that i'm not alone
I was afraid of this ... it could be a bug
I searched on Google about this problem but found no interesting entry anywhere about it like if nobody saw it ?!
Do you know if there is a sort of BugZilla for android OS please ? Maybe we could find an entry there or at least enter a new one if necessary ...
laurent
Hi, the email application belongs to the Sense, so HTC should fix it. The stock Android email app works (tested on a Samsung phone with the same SMTP server) but is not available on Desire.
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Ok, thks for this information, sorry I was thinking this one was the default mail application from Android
so we have nothing to do other than waiting and cross our fingers that HTC release a fix asap ...
if you want the default android one, i ffound it on a post here somewhere....cant find it now though, but you can download it from http://rhedgehog.com/apk/email.apk
If someone can upload it to rapidshare or something (no access here at work) it'd be cool.
Edit: Oh by the way, have no issues with my server. Auth turned on, standard SMTP, SSL off. no idea what software my host is running on the server though.....
hi,
thks for your reply !
do u mean smtp auth is working properly for you ? if so can you give me firmware version of your htc desire please ?
thks
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SMTP Auth is working fine for me with SSL, I use Runbox premium mail service.
I am running software version 1.15.405.4
1.15.110.11
Hi again,
Thks all for your informations, I also have 1.15.405.4 and so did some new tests with SSL enabled/selected this time and SMTP Auth is now working !
If I go back and disable SSL, I have no logs on my Postfix server-side about SMTP Auth and client is purely rejected.
By the way, for my curiosity I tried with the Android default Email application rhedgehog provided (thks) and with this one SMTP Auth is working with SSL selected or not ...
So, as a workaround, I finally kept SSL on but did not find yet the last word of this problem !?
@alebolic : maybe you should try with SSL on ...
laurent
lolomin said:
Hi,
I'm having some problems with default Mail application of Android under HTC Desire for sending mails through my personal mail server.
I host my own mail server with SMTP Authentication but *only* with Android Mail application it seems to ignore username/password I provided under the account settings so no authenticated session is done on the mail server and this one reject the client because of this. SASL Authentication is properly working with other clients (Windows mobile pocket outlook, Thunderbird 2 or 3, Outlook ...etc)
Do you have such other similar experience/problem with SMTP Auth within Android 2.1 please ?
Thanks by advance,
laurent
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I have a Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S on t Mobile. I have no pop3/smtp issues on all platforms and devices including my Blackberry 8520, 9700, and Pearl. I have two POP3/SMTP accounts that I need email to send and reviece from constantly allday. Sinc eI bought my Android phone I have had nothing but issues on both the defaul internal client and with apps like K9 for example.
Whether I am rooted or not, fresh reboot or after it has been on or idle, smtp always fails a few days after adding account and POP3 works occasionally. I have tested full and as needed syncing, other SSL ports and etc other than the recomnmended and still pop3 is sporatic and SMTP fails frequesntly a few days after thet account are created in the phone. I had zero issues on my Blackberry, I just dont understand why these phones are giving so many people issues.
?? I am begining to wonder if everyones issue is a task killer killing an app that is needed and it is not opening when needed?
?? Is there a underliying push to make people use Gmail and apps instead of the phone?
It must be a base system issue because POP3/SMTP apps behave the same way. As everyone knows Gmail works fine always. My Yahoo! Mail app works perfect as well.
WA: I just use bookmarks I placed on my Home screen to access my mail via browser.
Not sure if it is relevant, I use a service called authsmtp for all my outgoings, and it is a little irritating when being set up on Android HTC Desire froyo. The first time it tries the access and says the host isn't responding, if you then say you have ssl it then produces a checkbox saying login required and you can enter a username/passw combo. After that it works.....
Seems like the requirement to let it know you have secure access isn't geared to the first attempt to set up.
Barry
Same problem here.
The HTC Desire Z mailclient does not support SMTP Auth with my mail server.
I checked on my mailserver to find the problem, but the phone does not try auth
at all.
Server says "220 ... ESMTP Sendmail.."
Phone sends "EHLO [..ip..]"
Server answers
"
250....
...
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
...
"
Phone sends "QUIT"
The Phone shows "server does not support authentication".
BTW: this phone is the only client I tested with this bug. Working clients are: Thunderbird, iPhone, iPad, aso
It seems HTC mail does not support the provided Auth methods. If anyone of you has a working setup, could you please tell me which mailserver it is or tell me what auth method
would work ?
Have you tried authsmtp as I mentioned? They were aware of the original problem I had and they may well be able to fix the Z issue.
B
I can't get my exchange setup and am really wanting to find a way to at least get (don't need to respond even... just view).
I have all my info the phone asks for for exchange, but I get the following message when it trys to connect:
Your Microsoft Exchange Server account does not have permission to synchronize with your current settings. Contact your Exchange Server administrator.
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I've also tried setting up a rule in outlook to forward all incoming mail to a gmail account and that's not working either.
Are there any other options I have here? Corporate won't even talk to me (I tried) because they support ONLY phones they provide and they didn't provide this one (they're blackberry fanboys).
I used to have a blackberry (not one they provided) and could get email fine on it through BIS. Is there anything like BIS for phones other than BB? Something where you set up an exchange account online with the service and they then forward the mail to your phone or something?
I was able to setup my Exchange support no sweat. This is the first android device available in the US that can handle the harsh security policies set forth by my company. Works great.
You need to make sure you have the following info:
Account name
Password
Domain
Email Address
Server <this may be your issue>
whether or not they support SSL
The server is most likely not "yourcompany.com". For example my company uses "webmail.yourcompany.com". Secondly, your account name should be the same as your email address with the "@yourcompany.com" part. Its possible for it to be different. You should be able to get the domain name from your corporate PC/Laptop. aside from that, just try with the SSL option. If that fails try it again without.
byproxy said:
I can't get my exchange setup and am really wanting to find a way to at least get (don't need to respond even... just view).
I have all my info the phone asks for for exchange, but I get the following message when it trys to connect:
I've also tried setting up a rule in outlook to forward all incoming mail to a gmail account and that's not working either.
Are there any other options I have here? Corporate won't even talk to me (I tried) because they support ONLY phones they provide and they didn't provide this one (they're blackberry fanboys).
I used to have a blackberry (not one they provided) and could get email fine on it through BIS. Is there anything like BIS for phones other than BB? Something where you set up an exchange account online with the service and they then forward the mail to your phone or something?
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BIS is different than Exchange, it connects to Exchange but does it's own thing with email, calendar, etc..
If you have never connected to your Exchange server using ActiveSync, it would need to be configured on the Exchange server.
The forwarding is also an Exchange server side configuration that the "fanboys" would need to setup.
I know you can have gmail check email on an external account, did you try configuring that?
okay... so if you don't mine i'll post the info you're saying i need with what i think the information is based on what i'm pulling from my outlook on my work computer. i'll change the info though to keep things secure. this is what i'm asked for when i try to create the account and what i'm entering:
email address: firstname.lastnameATcompanyDOTcom
server address: two options here and i've tried both. the first is listed as the microsoft exchange server on the first window that comes up when i select the account: letters-letter22.ab.lettersDOTnet the second is listed under more settings > connection > exchange proxy settings: ab.lettersDOTcom
domain name: i'm not sure of this one but figured it was one of two things. the first would be what i type in before my username when logging in: ab-letters (so when i log in i type (ab-letters\username). the second would be the url for the OWA option which is: companymailDOTcom
username: again, i've tried two options one is just my username and the other is my full login as needed when logging into outlook or OWA (ab-letters\username).
password: password
and i've tried with both the ssl box checked and not checked.
that said, what am i missing or entering wrong? thanks for the help!
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BIS is different than Exchange, it connects to Exchange but does it's own thing with email, calendar, etc..
If you have never connected to your Exchange server using ActiveSync, it would need to be configured on the Exchange server.
The forwarding is also an Exchange server side configuration that the "fanboys" would need to setup.
I know you can have gmail check email on an external account, did you try configuring that?
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i tried the gmail option. said the server didn't allow for pop access.
use the address you use to access webmail. usually it's
owa.company.com
webmail.company.com
mail.company.com
if they don't allow MS ActiveSync I don't know what you can do.
if POP or IMAP is not an option, and the forward is not working (most companies don't allow that as a data leakage prevention) there is little to nothing you can do.
just weird they don't allow ActiveSync. you would read emails out of the office and become more efficient. very bad business policy.
when i log into OWA... the address is:
h t t p s :// w w w .companymail.com/OWA/
(sorry for the spacing... won't let me post urls)
will that not work?
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okay... so if you don't mine i'll post the info you're saying i need with what i think the information is based on what i'm pulling from my outlook on my work computer. i'll change the info though to keep things secure. this is what i'm asked for when i try to create the account and what i'm entering:
email address: firstname.lastnameATcompanyDOTcom
server address: two options here and i've tried both. the first is listed as the microsoft exchange server on the first window that comes up when i select the account: letters-letter22.ab.lettersDOTnet the second is listed under more settings > connection > exchange proxy settings: ab.lettersDOTcom
domain name: i'm not sure of this one but figured it was one of two things. the first would be what i type in before my username when logging in: ab-letters (so when i log in i type (ab-letters\username). the second would be the url for the OWA option which is: companymailDOTcom
username: again, i've tried two options one is just my username and the other is my full login as needed when logging into outlook or OWA (ab-letters\username).
password: password
and i've tried with both the ssl box checked and not checked.
that said, what am i missing or entering wrong? thanks for the help!
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Your Email:firstname.lastnameATcompanyDOTcom
Your Server: companymailDOTcom <-- most likely your OWA server
Yoru Domain: ab-letters <--- from ab-letters\username
Accountname: username <-- from username
password: password
That should be enough. Of coarse try the SSL option both ways.
Here.. When we deployed our exchange server this is how we setup the server.
The main 2 things you need to know is email server and active directory domain. For this example ill use:
Email Server: mail.company.com
Domain: company.com
So..
Email: [email protected]
Server: mail.company.com
Domain: company.com (in some cases, it can be left blank)
Username: myname
Password: pass
Depending on how things are configure, sometimes you may need to use company\myname as the username, but most times not.
Also, as I mentioned before.. It really depends on how things are setup. If the server admins don't allow activesync, your out of luck. Also, things like hub transport servers in the mix can effect how email is accessed as well. If your admins can't give you the info you need for this... Um, perhaps they need to find other work.
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Domain: company.com (in some cases, it can be left blank)
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By domain, it looking for your PDC (Primary Domain Controller). Not your companies URL domain unless you somehow named your internal PDC the same thing.
This would be the part that he types just before his username during his authentication sessions.
Let us know how you fair.
tried every suggestion offered here. sadly, no dice. i get the same security warning i mentioned in my first email. given that my previous BB was NOT issues by corporate yet i was able to retrieve work email fine (through BIS of course), i can only assume that they've somehow managed to set up the system so that it doesn't work with anything other than BIS or BES.
looking for any other possible solutions/alternatives. as i mentioned before, the whole forwarding thing didn't work so unless there's another way, gmail isn't even an option. any thoughts?
All out of ideas for getting email and events pushed to your phone. You can use the HTC Sync App and do it at the desktop. Also the OWA client works great in the web browser.
Lastly, you can escalate internally, but I'd recommend writing up a small business case to demonstrate the benefits before you do so. They did that in my company and that got use away from having to use Good Link.
If you can get your exchange administrator to agree to allow Activesync connections for retrieving mail, you could use an app like Nitrodesk's Touchdown v5 (for 2.0 and above).
Been using it on my Droid and it's stable and reliable if a bit choppy when swapping inbox folders.
Hope that helps.
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ya. i tried that one too just in case to i knew for certain it was on their end and not something with the phone. nice program.
sadly... no help. there's no way i'm going to convince them to do anything different than what they're doing now. when i say i work for a corporation, i mean i work for a CORPORATION. LOL. it's frikin huge with tons of employees, all over the world. that makes me a tiny little bug. LOL. when i made my call to IT they wouldn't even talk to me about anything email-cellphone related since i'm not high enough to even be considered for a corporate issued BB. LOL.
i do have one more chance. i can't remember what options are available in BIS, but my wife is going to take over my storm1 now that i have the new incredible. we're going in today to make the swap. my hope is that i can set my work email up in BIS as i did before but then auto forward it to a gmail account from within BIS. will be nice if i'm able to do this though it's still stupid that they don't let their frontline workers have access from their personal cellphones.
well, i made a bit of progress today. i still haven't connected yet, but after adding my account to BIS i was able to view the email server it uses to connect to the exchange server which is different from the one i was using before.
that said, i'm not getting that security msg i was getting before. now, though, i keep getting a message saying i can't be authenticated. i've tried lots of different options for the username to see if i could get in with no luck. any thoughts? i feel like i'm closer... but still so far away. thanks for the help!
cyberstraz said:
If you can get your exchange administrator to agree to allow Activesync connections for retrieving mail, you could use an app like Nitrodesk's Touchdown v5 (for 2.0 and above).
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Personally, I like the one built in to incredible more than the touch down app. I can see it all using the HTC widgets in Sense. Its very nice.
found a work around i thought i'd share. it's not great by any means, but it lets me view work email on my phone.
i setup a seperate gmail account just for work. then in outlook on my work computer i added the gmail account as an imap. then i created a rule to copy all incoming mail to the gmail inbox folder in outlook. this then syncs (obviously) with the gmail account and i pull the gmail to the phone through the native gmail app. it requires me leaving my computer at work on 24/7 but it's the only solution i could come up with for the time being.
Can anyone confirm if the incredible deals with the issues raised in this post ? code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4475 e.g. remote wipe/Simple Pin request etc?
Thanks.
Hi guys n gals
Was hoping someone here with an Orange Desire could give me the correct settings to get a Hotmail account set up in the HTC Mail app?
The following settings worked perfectly on my Vodafone Desire, but don't work on my friend's Orange Desire.
I've found a couple of places on the net that suggest changing outgoing port to 587 or 2525, but having spent a lot of time checking and double-checking I'm a bit hacked off trying random configs, and hope someone who actually has it working can give me their settings, please?
Thanks!
Incoming:
Protocol - pop
put email address in and user name put email address in again
put in password
pop server - pop3.live.com
security type - SSL port 995
Outgoing:
tick log in required
put email address in as username
put in password
smtp server - smtp.live.com
security type - TLS
server port - 25
I got a Orange desire but Im running Froyo ROM with those settings (587 TLS for outgoing) and it works fine. They also worked on Pays Bravesoul 2.1 ROM.
Nekromantik said:
I got a Orange desire but Im running Froyo ROM with those settings (587 TLS for outgoing) and it works fine. They also worked on Pays Bravesoul 2.1 ROM.
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OK, Nekromantik we'll give that a try, thanks
Anyone else confirm these are their settings too on Orange Desires?
My friend has tried Nekromantik's settings, but no joy :-(
Anyone else on a standard Orange ROM got Hotmail working?
Incidentally, I've tried setting his Hotmail account up on my phone using TLS and 587 on the outgoing port, and get the same result as him - it doesn't throw back any errors when completing, but when you try and look at his emails there is just one in there (which is not the case with his email box).
And the email in there is timed/dated from the moment you finished setting up the account on the phone, and says it's from Windows Live Hotmail Team, and the content of it is just "This is an old news letter and has expired".
Think this might indicate some sort of problem with Hotmail rather than his phone?
The only other difference between his and my Hotmail accounts is mine is a brand new Hotmail.com account (that I only created to test and help him set his up), and his is an older Hotmail.co.uk account that he's had for a number of years...