Before configuring email, you may wish to consider our recommendation of giving iGet Mobile its own free Gmail account to use to send email. There are links below to specific settings for Gmail, .Mac, and Yahoo.
The Email preference pane.
- Outgoing Mail Server - This is the mail sending server, also known as the SMTP server. Often, it has an address like "smtp.example.com". It is typically different than the server you use to check your incoming mail.
- Port Number - This is the port used to send email. In the old days, port 25 was standard. It still is, but now many ISPs block this port. They claim this is to prevent Windows viruses using infected PCs to send spam, which is a real concern. Port 587 is another standard port, supported by some mail providers, but not all. The port number(s) you can use are up to your mail provider. However, if you use a mail provider that is not your ISP, then your ISP may have some impact on what ports can be used as well.
- Encryption - You should always use encryption if your email provider supports it. And only really lame email providers don't support it. You have the choice to Require SSL-encrypted connections, and this is the only really secure option. However, you may also choose Use SSL when possible which will allow iGet Mobile to send email even when SSL is not available. Or you may choose to Never use SSL encryption if for some reason that is what you want.
- Authentication - Most modern email providers require that you authenticate with a username and password to send email. The main exception is that if you use your ISP as your email provider, they can often detect that you are a customer on their own network, in which case they may not require authentication. In most cases Automatic is the best option, but you can choose a specific authentication type if you know what is required.
- Username - If authentication is used to send email, this is the username iGet Mobil will authenticate with. Sometimes the username should be your entire email address, and in other cases just the part before the "@" character. In less common cases, this username might be unrelated to your email address. This is determined by your email provider.
- Password - This is the password used to authenticate when sending email.
- Your Email Address - This tells iGet Mobile where to send email when it wants to communicate with you. For example, if you have configured it to notify you when the server access details change, the notifications will be sent to the address you enter in this field.
- From Address - Optionally, you can specify an email address that iGet Mobile should put in the From: header of email messages it sends. This includes email sent to you as well as email you have iGet Mobile send to others.
- From Name - Optionally, you can also specify the name used in the From: header of email messages iGet Mobile sends. This will be the name used for email sent to you, as well as for any email you have iGet Mobile send to others.
- Test Current Settings - This feature allows you to send a test message to confirm that your current email settings are working.
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