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GMail & the Series 60

Posted by Martin on Nov 23, 2004 in GMailChecker

Mobile Tech have a good article on accessing GMail from Series 60 phones. My experiences have been a little different so I thought I'd note them down.

The standard Series 60 mail client on Series 60 v2 phones such as the 6630 and 7610 works, althought the 6600 does not. The client can be configured for POP over SSL (Mailbox, Settings, Security - On). Although the GMail instructions indicate that TLS is necessary to connect to the SMTP server I didn't find it so when I tried. Of course, Google may change this and implement security at any time.

I tried Profimail last week and it didn't support SSL. This week it does! Well done to Lonely Cat for a quick update.

Whichever method you use, you may get the Untrusted certificate message whenever you connect to the GMail server. I tried two identical 7610's and one happily accepted the certificate and one didn't! If you do get this message then it can be overcome by installing the Thawte SSL Domain certificate. You can downloaded it from here.

Although Mobile Tech were having problems with the GMail atom feed, it still seems to be working for me.

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Hey Martin,

I too tested the 6600 and found that it didn't work even with the security turned on. I could neither send messages nor receive them.

When was the last time you tried connecting with a 6600/7610?

This could perhaps be a Firmware Issue (mine is 3.42.1)?

Posted by: Tarek | November 23, 2004 12:15 PM

This could be a network issue. I have not got GMail POP access working with Orange, but have with T-Mobile. I am guessing that Orange have port 995 disallowed.

Posted by: Martin [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 23, 2004 12:21 PM

I've been trying more setting but no luck so far. Can it be a Network Problem if i can connect using ProfiMail on the same network but not with the native client?

Also RE: Atom Feeds...Yeah i couldn't get this working either (thought GmailChecker Installed fine). Can anyone access the Gmail Atom Feeds?

Posted by: tarek | November 23, 2004 12:38 PM

I've re-tried the 6600 with no luck with the e-mail client but GMailChecker is working fine. I thought I'd tried it last week, but must have been mistaken

The 7610 and 6630 email clients seem to work.

You can try invoking the atom feeds direct from your browser - https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom

Posted by: Martin [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 23, 2004 02:15 PM

This could be a network issue. I have not got GMail POP access working with Orange, but have with T-Mobile. I am guessing that Orange have port 995 disallowed.

Posted by: blindb [TypeKey Profile Page] | September 3, 2006 09:58 PM

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Posted by: blindb [TypeKey Profile Page] | September 10, 2006 05:52 PM

I've been trying more setting but no luck so far. Can it be a Network Problem if i can connect using ProfiMail on the same network but not with the native client?

Also RE: Atom Feeds...Yeah i couldn't get this working either (thought GmailChecker Installed fine). Can anyone access the Gmail Atom Feeds?

Posted by: blindb [TypeKey Profile Page] | September 18, 2006 09:23 AM

Any chance to have url updated? I have a P910 n never could use gmailchecker :(

Posted by: Oco [TypeKey Profile Page] | October 27, 2006 07:30 AM

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