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How to connect your Sony Ericsson M600i with your GMail account (POP)

This isn't as hard as it seems, if you follow this step-by-step.

1. Upgrade the firmware in your M600i if you can't get your machine going by following the steps after this one; my upgrade solved my problems, as it added functions required.

note: upgrading your firmware erases everything in your phone. Backup beforehand.

2. I used these settings to figure out what was up. To simplify things, you need to create a new e-mail account through the messaging-part of your M600i. After that, you configure the three following parts:

Basic account name: [a name you decide] your name: [your actual name, e.g. Niklas Pivic] email address: [e@mail.nu] connection type: POP3

Inbox incoming server address: pop.gmail.com username: user@gmail.com password: [yourpassword] download restrictions: no restrictions

Do note the importance of no restrictions: I remember having read a Google article saying GMail cannot handle requests from e-mail clients asking to merely download the "header" of an e-mail, so there you go.

Outbox outgoing server address: smtp.gmail.com check "Use SMTP authentication" check "Use Inbox login details"

3. Now, you're almost done. Click "More" on the lower, right-hand side of the screen and pick "Advanced".

Here, you see two tabs:

Incoming secure connection: SSL incoming mail port: 995 leave "Secure password authentication" unchecked

Outgoing secure connection: TLS outgoing mail port: 587 check the box marked "use MIME encoding" (I did, anyway)

That should do it, go!