Email Settings for Razr V3

Motorola RAZR V3 comes with a small application that is a simple e-mail client. It supports POP3 / IMAP and SMTP. After couple of tries, I could not be able to set up a simple account for this simple client for Motorola Razr V3. I was pretty sure that the settings of my GMAIL account are ok but still I could not connect to the server.

After several hours of working on it (though I do not count the bill I incurred), I finally managed to get the decent method of reaching the server by using the email client in Motorola Razr V3. By the way, I have to say that that customer representative in Turkcell was very angry on the phone that I called with a phone that I would like to set. She insisted too much to call her with another phone and then get the parameters. I think someone should make it clear for them that customer can take notes.

Well, here are the secret settings that you can not find over the web site of Turkcell. This is for Motorola Razr V3 but similar settings can be used in Motorola V series.

ISP Settings

Connection Type: GPRS

APN address: internet

User name: leave empty

Password: leave empty

DNS IP: leave empty, if not able to do so, leave as 0.0.0.0

Email Provider: Custom

Protocol: POP3

User ID: username@gmail.com

Password: your password

Sending Host: smtp.gmail.com

Sending port: 587 (Here is the key for sending mail with GMAIL, it is odd but other ports cannot be reached!)

Receiving host: pop.gmail.com

Receiving port: 995

Return address: username@gmail.com

Name: Your Name

Cleanup: None (is used for cleaning mails from the server after the days you specify)

Save on server: Yes (well, I could not figure out the differences between this one and the previous one)

Notification: On

Check new msgs: No (If you want to check your mail periodically, choose other options)

Hide fields: leave empty (though it is up to you)

Auto Signature: leave empty (thoug it is up to you)

Security

Use SSL for sending: Yes (GMAIL supports SSL)

Use SSL for receiving: Yes (GMAIL supports SSL)

Warnings in Background: Proceed

Size restriction: 65535 (messages that are bigger than this amount of byte are not downloaded).

Well, that is basically it. Here though I showed here setting of POP3 account, it is always good to use an IMAP mail account for cellular phones (Indeed, I moved to an IMAP client). However, it is a different story :)