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July 21st, 2006

How to connect your Sony Ericsson M600i with your GMail account (POP)

This isn’t as hard as it seems, if you follow this step-by-step.

1. Upgrade the firmware in your M600i if you can’t get your machine going by following the steps after this one; my upgrade solved my problems, as it added functions required.

note: upgrading your firmware erases everything in your phone. Backup beforehand.

2. I used these settings to figure out what was up. To simplify things, you need to create a new e-mail account through the messaging-part of your M600i. After that, you configure the three following parts:

Basic
account name: [a name you decide]
your name: [your actual name, e.g. Niklas Pivic]
email address: [e@mail.nu]
connection type: POP3

Inbox
incoming server address: pop.gmail.com
username: user@gmail.com
password: [yourpassword]
download restrictions: no restrictions

Do note the importance of no restrictions: I remember having read a Google article saying GMail cannot handle requests from e-mail clients asking to merely download the “header” of an e-mail, so there you go.

Outbox
outgoing server address: smtp.gmail.com
check "Use SMTP authentication"
check "Use Inbox login details"

3. Now, you’re almost done. Click “More” on the lower, right-hand side of the screen and pick “Advanced”.

Here, you see two tabs:

Incoming
secure connection: SSL
incoming mail port: 995
leave "Secure password authentication" unchecked

Outgoing
secure connection: TLS
outgoing mail port: 587
check the box marked "use MIME encoding" (I did, anyway)

That should do it, go!

Posted in Materialism, Tech, Windows | By Niklas

18 Responses to “How to connect your Sony Ericsson M600i with your GMail account (POP)”

  1. Melm Says:

    July 30th, 2006 at 22:12

    Great mate! Så slapp man själv leta runt! Tack för det.

  2. Niklas Says:

    July 30th, 2006 at 22:32

    Jag säger som R. Kelly:

    I’ll be theeeeere

    …fast utan alla 12-åriga tjejer och videokameror.

  3. Gmail med m600i at ett noll ett Says:

    August 8th, 2006 at 13:47

    [...] UPPDATERING! 2006-08-08 13:39 Via Niklas inlägg på sin blogg fick jag reda på att det visst går att ansluta direkt till Gmails POP3 server. Det som krävs är dock att man väljer “inga begränsningar” för hur stora email, hur många email etc som skall hämtas. Som jag förstått beror detta på Gmails POP3 implementation. Trots att det går att ansluta direkt kommer jag fortsätta att använda min lösning nedan av följande skäl: [...]

  4. Hannes Says:

    August 8th, 2006 at 14:33

    Hej!

    Jag har pulat med detta utan att få det att fungera – det var begränsningarna inser jag nu! Kul att veta vad det var för fel! Däremot tycker jag det är synd att man inte kan ha vanliga POP3 begränsningar – det kan ju lätt bli lite dyrt om man inte kan kontrollera hur mycket som skall hämtas… fast jag har förstått att det hänger på Gmails POP3 implementation och inte på telefonen. Tills det finns någon smidigare lösning på det komma jag nog fortfarande att använda mig av min egen lilla “workaround” se min blogg:
    http://hannes.helander.net/?p=118

    /Hannes

  5. Henry Duckworth Says:

    August 9th, 2006 at 10:04

    Hi
    I never had any problem with M600i, its a great phone. I haven’t tried it with Gcal but i am using http://www.zyb.com to backup and share my phone book and calendars through the sync feature.

  6. Niklas Says:

    August 9th, 2006 at 13:46

    Hello, Henry. Thanks for the head-up, but the problem is that Zyb currently have forgotten the path to the server database for the Sony Ericsson M600i; I have notified them of this, and otherwise, Zyb seems to be a nice service.

  7. balachandar Says:

    January 19th, 2007 at 13:22

    thanks dude. your note on ‘Download only headers’ helped me to sort my problem. thanks a lot for sharing.

  8. Thamo Says:

    March 18th, 2007 at 09:45

    Dear Niklas,

    Thanks for the info M600i… I was having trouble for almost six months and you gave a wonder full solution.

    How to use push email in M600i… iam using aol email… it works for first few times and then something weird happens it doesnt work at all…

  9. Stefan B Says:

    April 13th, 2007 at 13:41

    Great phone M600i, but BEWARE!!!

    I have had this phone for 3 months now. The touchscreen died – no scratches, dents or shocks – this is just to explain that it failed unexpectedly.

    The repair costs are staggering – 120-150 Euros for the touchscreen replacement (which, according to the service guys are known to fail).

    My warranty was invalidated because they claim that the TS was wetted!!! (as in I had a sweaty finger???) – there are 3 virtual buttons that can be pressed with the finger when handling calls.

    Therefore, I am now looking at spending 150 for a phone that is 3 mo old. I find this unacceptable. This never happened to me with Nokias or Blackberries.

    My bottom line – while the device was OK while it worked, I will certainly not go to SE again when I look for a business phone.

  10. vilas Says:

    April 20th, 2007 at 14:36

    Hi Niklas,
    Your info on connecting m600i with gmail (POP3) was excellent. I am now able to send mails from my phone. Just wanted to know how to activate the pushmail function so that the emails sent to me also land in my phone.

    Regards,
    Vilas Tokale
    Journalist, Mumbai, India

  11. SE M600i + ZYBsync & Widsets at nexuz.in Says:

    May 13th, 2007 at 22:05

    [...] Go yet as my mobile as of now is not supported by Yahoo! Go. M600i users might find this useful post by Niklas on configuring Gmail account in M600i. This is the most usable phone that I’ve ever [...]

  12. Configuring Gmail with Sony Ericsson M600i at nexuz.in Says:

    May 15th, 2007 at 09:55

    [...] there are no good detailed tutorials about the same in the SE developer forum too. One exception is Niklas blog. His entry on ‘How to connect your Sony Ericsson M600i with your Gmail account (POP)’ [...]

  13. Paul anderson Says:

    July 12th, 2007 at 10:43

    It works very well and is much easier to use than mobile web access. Received email remains in your GMail account. Furthermore, if you use the GMail SMTP (smtp.googlemail.com) to send email, your sent email will also end up in your GMail ‘Sent Mail’ folder.

  14. Tim Says:

    July 12th, 2007 at 12:03

    Thanks for letting us know.

  15. Omar Says:

    September 6th, 2007 at 23:07

    Hey Stefan B, the same thing happened to my M600i. I was lucky that I had only had the phone in 2 weeks, so it went for repair and they actually changed everything inside the phone! So the screen problem must be very serious. It’s just sad that you have to pay that much, because it is such a nice phone.

  16. Karda Says:

    October 8th, 2007 at 23:23

    I have bought my phone on e-bay and tried to use it with 3 Mobile SIM Card (UK). Unfortunately these bastards block me from using my email, because I can’t get either e-mail or IM+ to work…I guess I’ll just wait till my contract finishes and throw that network as far as it’s possible or maybe someone knows the solution?

  17. Tripto Roy Says:

    October 31st, 2007 at 16:11

    I am totally baffled as to how to access GMAIL from an M600i, I have an Airtel Connection and i have tried all sorts of solutions but to no avail, i can browse everything but gmail :( (

  18. Sailen Says:

    November 5th, 2007 at 14:06

    Usefull article.
    I just wrote a reviw on M600i @ http://sensefruition.blogspot.com/2007/11/sony-ericsson-m600i-sexiest-smart-phone.html
    //Sailen

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