POP Email on the Samsung Instinct

Written by CPUSmith Published on Monday, 01 June 2009 22:54 Last updated on Monday, 01 June 2009 23:54

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Most ISP's will not allow you send outgoing SMTP email through thier servers for security reasons.  However, Sprint provides an outgoing SMTP server that will preserve the email format and retain the From: (your) email address.  It's a little tricky to set up though.

These instructions were designed with the Samsung Instinct in mind but, technically, they can be followed for any phone that supports Sprint Mobile Email.  In addition, if you know the Incoming Mail Server for your email ISP, you should be able to use these instuctions for Cox, TWC, Comcast, Bright House, and Juno. 

If you have already configured as POP3 on your phone for the account in question (unsuccessfully), you will need to delete it and add a new one.

1. Press Home and touch Main and then Email.
2. Press Back to return to the Email Home Page.
3. Touch Add New Email Account to begin the process of adding a new email account.
4. Scroll down to More and select it.
5. Select Other POP
6. Enter the email address for your  email account the password used to access it
7. Select Next
8. For Incoming Mail Server enter the ISP server from the listing below.
9. Leave SSL off.
10. Enter the username for the email account (usually the portion before @ in the email address but varies for each ISP)
11. For Outgoing Mail Server enter smtp.sprintpcs.com
12. Leave SSL and SMTP Auth off
13. Select Next
14. Give the Email Account a recognizable name.
15. Select Next.
16. Select Next to sign in and test the account.
17. If you are successful it should then pop into the Inbox of the email account.

Congradulations!!!

Time Warner – Road Runner

Server names change regionally and can be derived from your email address.

pop-server.[location].rr.com

So me @san.rr.com will use pop-server.san.rr.com

Google Mail

It's a little more involved to enable POP mail and you must use SSL so read the instructions here:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287

Other ISP's

Adelphia Cable incoming mail server: mail.adelphia.net

BellSouth incoming mail server: mail.bellsouth.net

Cableone incoming mail server: mail.cableone.net

Charter incoming mail server: pop.charter.net

Comcast incoming mail server: mail.comcast.net

Cox Central incoming mail server: pop.central.cox.net

Cox East incoming mail server: pop.east.cox.net

Cox West incoming mail server: pop.west.cox.net

Earthlink incoming mail server: pop.earthlink.net

GoDaddy incoming mail server: mail.godaddy.com

Juno incoming mail server: pop.juno.com

Lycos incoming mail server: pop.mail.lycos.com

MSN incoming mail server: pop3.email.msn.com

Verizon incoming mail server: incoming.verizon.net

Yahoo incoming mail server: pop.mail.yahoo.com

If you're having difficulty finding the information for your ISP ask and I'll find it for you.