I've gome to the conclusion that Gmail on a PocketPC isn't a great solution right now for me. The beauty of Gmail is the ability to store ALL your messages for future retrieval. However, there is currently no way on a PPC to access any of your achived messages, at least for me.
I can only access new messages via POP, and as soon as I do a send and receive, previously received messages are removed from Inbox. If I set Gmail to download ALL messages, I get the unable to download messages error. I've only got 5 messages in my Gmail box right now, so it's not the size of messages that is an issue. Since PIE can't access the web version of Gmail, and since POP can't access "old" messages there isn't any way to get at all your stored stuff. :cry:
It will work fine if you just want to see new messages as they come into the mailbox. But forget about replying to a received message later in the day, because once you do another send & receive it's gone, never to be seen on the PPC again. Again, this wouldn't be a huge problem IF you could still access the mail via their web interface. Unfortunately we can't do that with our PPC's, so...
It would be nice if Google would add another setting to the POP rules - something to the affect of: Download all messages received within the last XX days, similar to the sync feature with Outlook. That would resolve the issue - since none of us really want to download a gig of mail to our PPC.
mine works on my 2215. sends and receives just fine. Although i find it funny the once the email had been popped of the server it is no longer available to be poped off from anywhere else. ex. if i check email on my pocket pc and it downloads new mail. if i check again all the mail in my inbox dissapears. Or if i check from one pop client then try to check from another the second one says no mail. If i go back in to the gmail pop settings and reinable it for all email the next pop client i check with will get all the mail but like before none after that can get the mail that has been popped off once before. I assume it is designed that way, gmail is so crazy different. I like it.
You can tell the client (including Inbox on the PPC) to leave the messages on the server. That way, when you check on your PC, the email will be downloaded, and moved out of the inbox, not when the PPC connects.
This is how I do it, and it is great because in the morning I can pick up my iPAQ 4355, and check my email without having to get up. Then, when I do the email comes in on my laptop as usual. It's Great!
__________________ Mitchell Oke - Gear Diary Editor MacBook Pro, Self-Built Media Center PC on 22" LCD
Samsung i600 "BlackJack", HTC Universal, Microsoft Zune
The option isn't actually called "Leave messages on server" like in Outlook, but when you are setting up the account, on the server info page, click options, then next until you see a drop down box (should click next twice). Select the dropdown box, and select "Get message headers only". I have the tickbox ticked, and it will download the first 5kb of EACH message. Even if the message is only say 2kb, the message will remain on the server so you can get as usual on your computer. Easy! Good luck with it. I find it really useful. :mrgreen:
__________________ Mitchell Oke - Gear Diary Editor MacBook Pro, Self-Built Media Center PC on 22" LCD
Samsung i600 "BlackJack", HTC Universal, Microsoft Zune
i clicked on the option "leave messages on server" and it still dissapears from my inbox in my ppc. it is very buggy. some mail gets lost. i have it downloaded to my outlook on pc and on my ppc and sometimes one gets the email while the other doesnt and like others have said, when you click on send/receive after you have received the emails on the ppc, all the emails will dissapear.
i have tried all the options but none seem to make it work very well.
Well, I've given up now unfortunately. Shame, this would have been perfect for me. I reckon my own personal 2210 won't do it. Because:
1. I typed my settings into a friend's 2210, then connected via his laptop, and it worked perfectly on his 2210.
2. Got a different friends 2210, typed in all my settings, set up a GUEST partnership on my PC, and it connected to GMail perfectly.
3. Then typed same settings into my 2210, and it wouldn't work - giving the 'Cannot download messages error'.
4. However, my NTLWorld pop email works fine on my 2210.
All of those circumstances don't add up to a logical conclusion - although I've retried them over and over again to double-check. The fairies don't want GMail to work on my particular 2210, and that's that it would seem.
I installed the configurator and have done it manually as well. When I press send and receive, it always times out. I haven't been able to get this to work at all. anyone have any ideas what i'm doing wrong?
I get the same thing on my PC, and I'm getting the same problems as others with the PPC (messages all disappear on nest send/recieve).
I may have acted too quickly, but I just sent out an email to just about everyone in my address book, asking them to change my email to my new gmail address. I want Gmail to be my default in outlook, but whenever I send/recieve it times out on the smtp server connection.
I have been using the GMail Pop3 function on my pocket pc for the last few weeks and it is great.
Last night I was at my school's award presentation night, and I had an ebay auction finishing right in the middle. I was able to connect up to my phone via BT, and check my emails so I could see how itwent. Its great! Almost like a Blackberry (well, maybe not as simple, but still great )
__________________ Mitchell Oke - Gear Diary Editor MacBook Pro, Self-Built Media Center PC on 22" LCD
Samsung i600 "BlackJack", HTC Universal, Microsoft Zune
I noticed the problem of "disappearing" messages after doing another send/recieve. I reported it to Gmail. A few days ago it seemed to start working right, as one would expect (messages remain in PPC Inbox until I delete them).
Now its back to the broken situation. I'm not sure what the Gmail programmers are doing with POP...
Ok, don't know if anyone will ever read this, as this topic is now quite old. Anyhow, here goes:
I finally got my iPAQ2210 working on GMail !!!!!!! It took so...... long to work out what was wrong.
Three months earlier, I had performed a ROM update on my 2210, then did a restore. That was the problem. You ought not to do a restore after a ROM update. Whilst the restore might look like it has worked, you definitely lose certain functions. The most obvious of these is that you can no longer sign on to Hotmail, MSN, Passport etc. Hit that restore button after a ROM update (such that you are restoring a back-up made under an earlier ROM), and you can no longer use your iPAQ to sign into Hotmail etc. I'm not technical - it's something to do with updated security settings that get overwritten by the old restore.
*It stops you from being able to sign into GMail aswell*
So, I've had to hard-reset. Not do a restore. Sync my contacts, calender etc. Then both Hotmail (via internet) and GMail (POP) work perfectly. I'm now re-installing from scratch all my programs. :roll:
hmmm...where?
Shame, this would have been perfect for me. I reckon my own personal 2210 won't do it. Because:
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