how do i use my aplus.net email account on a symbian based portable device?

Answer by: Stuart Pierce, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support.

Aplus.Net email services are compatible with portable devices such as mobile phones, Pocket PC’s and PDA’s. In other words, you can use your portable device to send and receive messages through your Aplus.Net email account. The supported Operation Systems for these devices include Symbian OS, Palm OS, and Windows CE. Furthermore, Aplus.Net supports both POP3 and IMAP access to the mail servers.

The example below refers to a Symbian OS device with UIQ user interface, particularly the Sony Ericsson P910i model. Other companies using the UIQ interface are BenQ and Motorola. Symbian OS is also available with the Series 60 user interface (Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sendo, and Siemens) and the Series 80 user interface (Nokia Communicators 9210, 9300, 9500).

Note: It is required that your portable device has a configured Internet connection.

Start by going to the Control Panel and choose the Connections tab.
Then, click on Messaging Accounts.
Select the Email tab and click on New.
In the Basic tab specify the following settings:

Account name: choose a name for your account, for example Aplus.Net.
Your name: type your name.
Email address: type your full email address.
Connection type: choose POP3.
Internet account: select the internet access point of your mobile operator.

Select the Inbox tab and specify the following settings:

User name: type your full email address.
Password: type the password for your email account.
Incoming server address: type mail.yourdomain.com (Please replace “yourdomain.com” with your actual hosted domain name).

Select the Outbox tab and specify the following settings:

Outgoing server address: type smtp.yourdomain.com (Please replace “yourdomain.com” with your actual hosted domain name).
Use SMTP authentication: check this box.
Use Inbox login details: check this box.

Select the Advanced tab and specify the following settings:

Secure connection: leave this unchecked.
Outgoing mail port: type 587.
Use MIME encoding: leave this unchecked.
Incoming mail port: type 110.
Secure password authentication: leave this unchecked.

Click Done to save the settings.

Important: Aplus.Net mail servers support also the IMAP protocol. In order to use IMAP on your email account you have to change the following settings:

4. d. Connection type: choose IMAP.
7. a. Secure connection: check this box.
7. d. Incoming mail port: type 993.

All other settings remain the same.