(Answer) (Category) Accessing Services at OA5 / YASK / Irial : (Category) My Email : (Answer) Configuring Versamail on a Palm handheld
We will assume that you have configured the Bluetooth connection to your phone, and have GPRS working. If you cannot browse with webpro. please get that working first. We don't support getting basic connectivity, only the specifics of connecting to mail held on our servers.

Versamail can support up to eight accounts, so you can probably install other services alongside mail from your private mailbox. Again we're only going to look at setting up to connect to your mailbox on the OA5 service.

We will be setting up a Network mail account, rather than a synchronise-only account. Synchronise-only applies to mail accounts which you use with HotSync, which rather misses the point we think.

Select Menu > Accounts > Account Setup > New
Give your account a name that makes sense to you --- this is only an aide-memoir
Select Mail Service > Other
Select Protocol > IMAP
Do NOT check Synchronise only Account

Tap Next

Next put in the Username and password. Remember that the username is the account name provided to you by OA5, not your email address

Tap next

Now put in your email address
The server address will be imap.YOURDOMAIN (substitute your domain name for YOURDOMAIN)
The smtp server will be smtp.YOURDOMAIN
Tap Next

Tap Next again to set additional parameters

We SUGGEST you set
Get unread mail only
Don't set delete on server, unless your palm is going to be your only mail reader
Don't check use secure connection

The default 5kb maximum message size is reasonable for text messages, you might want to go to 10kb if most people sendyou HTML mail, or 20kb if they send you Misrosoft HTML from Outlook

Tap Next

Set your Name as you want it to be seen by those you send mail to
You can leave reply-to blank, as you have already set your From address correctly
You might want to send yourself a bcc of every message you send, so that you have a record of the mail you sent on the server.

Tap Next

You can now set up a signature. It's often a good idea to give people a phone number, and or postal address

Tap Next

This is important
Set the port number to 587
Set My server requires authentication (ESMTP)
Your account name and password should be copied from the imap server settings if not you will have to enter them again

Tap Done

Unfortunately that's not all.

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andrewATknotsDOTnet
2004-Jun-28 12:44
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