Google Gmail Settings for the Nokia E61 - Pt. 2
Two readers were kind enough to point out alternative solutions to the problem of the "untrusted certificate" warning when connecting to Gmail, as described below.
Thomas Mango at Trikenit pointed out this solution by Kevin Henrikson. Rafe from the indispensable site All About Symbian suggested a similar solution which I outlined below.
Go to the following URL from the browser of your Nokia E61 (remove the space between "certificates/ certificates" I added that for cosmetic reasons to the blog) https://www.geotrust.com/resources/root_certificates/ certificates/Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority_DER.cer or send the URL to yourself in an SMS and access it through the browser.
When you do this you will get an "untrusted certificate" warning but just continue. Save the certificate, you will receive a certificate warning but continue.
Press the joystick to check the two "Certificate Uses" checkboxes and confirm with OK.
Voila - you can now connect to Gmail with the POP and SMTP setting as pop.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com without getting the "untrusted certificate" warning.
Thanks for the added information Thomas and Rafe!
July 9th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
Hi,
I was surprised when I found your blog that is dedicated to these E series. Actually, i’m considering to buy one but still trying to sell my old treo 650.
Anyway, what I said in my post is about how eager myself to buy this nokia e61.
will be happy to visit your blog then…
July 10th, 2006 at 7:10 am
Hi Fisto, thanks for stopping by my blog. I actually moved from a Treo 650 to a Nokia E61 myself.
Cheers
July 11th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
really?…wow, and you seem happy with your decision to move from treo…
probably sometimes u can share the comparisons between the two?…
July 11th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
Hi Fisto,
I am prefectly happy with the move. I’ve been using the Treo since the 180 so it has been somewhat of an adjustment. It is a good idea for a future posting. Thanks for the idea.
July 13th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
I too moved from Treo 650, and I am so glad I made the switch…
July 13th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
Ditto! I’m another switcher. Jumped from a Treo 700 to the Nokia E61
July 13th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
I might post something special for us “switchers”
July 27th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Is anyone else suffering from a ‘continuous loop’ problem with their Gmail? I currently have the situation where, despite setting up Gmail several times (using the wizard, not using the wizard, using pop.googlemail.com instead of pop.gmail.com, SSL enabled, and trying different ports (995)), when I try to check Gmail, the phone asks for ‘mailbox username’, ‘mailbox password, then saves it, tries to connect, and then asks for the ‘mailbox username’ all over again!
I’ve found other forums online where people have had the same problems, but no one has posted a solution. Any ideas?
One thing I did notice is that the phone is not saving my ‘user-defined’ port number for both the incoming and outgoing servers. That could be the root of the problem…
Thanks for all your help!
July 28th, 2006 at 6:52 am
It’s confirmed: I’m an idiot.
For anyone else encountering the same problem, make sure you’ve enabled POP access on your Gmail account.
~Tim
July 28th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Hi Tim,
You’re no idiot. But thank you for pointing it out that it is a small but CRUCIAL step - to enable pop acccess on Google.
Glad it’s working now.
Cheers!
July 28th, 2006 at 11:41 am
This was very helpful!!! I appreciate that you guys are dedicated to finding these solution for us all to use. This is a great device that has made my life so much easier. I will bookmark you guys so that I never miss out on this stuff again…
July 28th, 2006 at 11:44 am
Hi mosaicthump,
We’re glad you find it useful.
Cheers
August 10th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Hi, I want to know if you can attach documents to Gmail when you are using it on Nokia E61. For example I write an email and attach a word or pic along with my email while just using Gmail and not any other email accounts. Is it possible?
Thanks…
August 20th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Hi, I just bought a new Nokia E61. I was wondering if someone can help me out with this email nuisance. I retrieve my email from gmail sucessfully, but then the next time my mobile phone checks for new email makes my current inbox messages (read or unread) disappear!!! I have changed gmail pop3 settings to let the downloaded email stay in the inbox but the problem persists.
Does anyone has this problem? Any solution?
my settings are:
* Incoming email:
o incoming mail serv: pop.googlemail.com
o mailbox type: POP3
o Security(ports): SSL/TLS
o Port: 995
o APOP secure login: off
* Outgoing email:
o Outgoing mail serv: smtp.googlemail.com
o Security (ports): StartTLS
o Port: 25
August 24th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
You are a genius !!! I love this phone ! It’s my first PDA ever ! And man is this one cool. I just got the gmail retrival function rolling in. Thanks for helping out.
Alex
Montreal
August 30th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
how did it work out for you? my connection times out w/o a successful connection
August 30th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
i changed my settings to match Pedro’s to see what would happen and now the device will connect to gmail, but then resets itself once it does.
August 30th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Thank you so much. This post and this entire site has helped me so much. I love this phone, and now it is the real workhorse I knew it could be.
September 18th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Hey Pedro - I was having the same problem with emails disappearing each time I connected. I was trying to work out what was wrong with the phone and then realised perhaps it wasn’t the phone at all. The problem is your settings in Gmail. If you change your POP settings so you download all rather than the latest I think your Gmail will start working more as you expect.
September 18th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
Pedro & Simon,
Auto forward your main gmail account to a temp gmail account specially for e61.
Retrive the emails from the new e61 gmail account. Set your reply address to the main gmail account.
DO NOT LOG IN TO THE NEW GMAIL ACCOUNT THROUGH THE WEB.
Try this your emails will not disappear.
Emails disappear because Gmail thinks that there are no new emails once you log in thorugh web.
This works fine… copy the important emails into “My folders” after retriving and reading it. It is not smooth still but it works…
Regards,
Kumar
September 19th, 2006 at 12:50 am
Anyone know how to install yahoo go mail in E61.. Been trying to setup the settings thru the normal way, but i cant seem to get it. It always comes back to Username and password then to select connection and also, i do get dis error saying.. Cannot connect to server.
By any chance anyone know how to do dis
September 19th, 2006 at 1:02 am
Anyone know how to install yahoo go mail in E61.. Been trying to setup the settings thru the normal way, but i cant seem to get it. It always comes back to Username and password then to select connection and also, i do get dis error saying.. Cannot connect to server. or server not found.
By any chance anyone know how to do dis
September 19th, 2006 at 1:41 am
Thanks Simon and Kumar. I already have a mirrored gmail account; I used to use it on my Palm TX. I never log in through a web browser on the mirrored account, but my emails still disappear.
I always select retrieve new email, but I will follow Kumar’s advice and see if my previous email does not disappear.
September 19th, 2006 at 5:04 am
try my settings
* Incoming email:
o incoming mail serv: pop.gmail.com (not pop.googlemail.com)
o mailbox type: POP3
o Security(ports): SSL/TLS
o Port: 995
o APOP secure login: off
* Outgoing email:
o Outgoing mail serv: smtp.gmail.com (not smtp.googlemail.com)
o Security (ports): SSL/TLS (not StartTLS)
o Port: 465
September 19th, 2006 at 6:47 am
Mitchell,
Do you have Yahoo premium? unless you have a premium email account you cannot access your email through POP
September 27th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Hiya,
I installed the certificate but forgot to check the 2 certificate uses with the joystick. Now whenever I check my email I am still getting the untrusted certificate stuff; I have tried to save the certificate again, but the problem remains. I would like to get rid of the saved certificate but I cannot locate it…
How do I find it, please?
Thx
Marco
October 19th, 2006 at 8:16 am
For those who are losing Emails when POP’ing GMail on E61 and E62. If you are using the Automatic Retrieve this may be caused by a setting that is unchangable when in Auto Retrieve mode. Turn off Auto Retrieve and then under Retrieval Settings change the amount from 30 to all. Then you can turn Auto Retrieve back on.
Hope that helps.
-Doc
October 19th, 2006 at 8:18 am
Marco,
Go to Menu>Settings>Config.>Security>Certif. Management scroll to the Equifax CA and press Options>Delete.
BR,
-Doc
October 26th, 2006 at 2:18 am
Hi guys,
just purchased an E61 and love it. Having a nightmare trying to have e-mails sent to my phone though.
I understand you need to do it through smtp.googlemail.com??
My gmail account is configured to allow me to use pop3 forwarding. Everytime i select gmail from the wizard on the phone, it defaults to use smtp.gmail.com which doesn’t work, is there a way of setting this info manually on the phone?? if there is I can’t find it!
or am i doing something stupid? is there anything else I need to do?
October 26th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
smtp.gmail.com is 100% working
built-in wizard have only 1 issue: for outgoing e-mail security must be set to SSL\TLS (not StartTLS)
November 2nd, 2006 at 7:55 am
so can you I have Gmail POP account and ActiveSync (Mail for Exchange) active at the same time on the phone. I have Mail for Exchange for work and it displays messages right on the front screen, but not sure if I can also add Gmail? Any ideas? How would that work?
November 4th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
I’ve been trying to set up the email accounts on the N e61 putting the outgoing server, incoming server infos just the way I should (you’ve been doing) (gmail) but it’s not working. When trying to retrive my mails it keep asking my login and pw three times then it says that the server refused the connection, check name and password, but I’m sure that I enter the correct infos. I’m sure some settings are missing but what? It’s really annoying!!!! What am I missing???
Here are my settings:
* Incoming email:
o incoming mail serv: pop.gmail.com (i tried both gmail and googlemail)
o mailbox type: POP3
o Security(ports): SSL/TLS
o Port: 995
o APOP secure login: off
* Outgoing email:
o Outgoing mail serv: smtp.gmail.com (I tried both gmail and googlemail)
o Security (ports): SSL/TLS (not StartTLS)
o Port: 465
The port numbers always go back to “default” after coming back to the settings, I don’t know why.
It’s still not working!
November 16th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
I too am having trouble setting up my email on e61. I use t-mobile and yahoo mail plus. my settings are:
Incoming mail:
User name: terrybollearules@yahoo.com
November 16th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
I too am having trouble setting up my email on e61. I use t-mobile and yahoo mail plus. my settings are:
INCOMING MAIL:
User name: terrybollearules@yahoo.com
password: **********
incoming mail serv.: pop.mail.yahoo.com
access point in use: yahoo (i have tried switching this to t-mobile internet)
mailbox name: yahoo
mailbox type: pop3
security (ports): off
port:587
apop secure login: off
OUTGOING MAIL:
same, except outgoing mail serv. is smtp.mail.yahoo.com
December 19th, 2006 at 6:30 am
Hi,
I live in sri lanka, im using e61, i tried many settings to configure my e61 with gmail account but it doesnt work. can anybody help me. Error message is this “general: operation time out”. I tried to log my account hundred times. Is the problem is my country? Please help me.
Naveen
December 25th, 2006 at 6:28 am
Pedro et. alli,
The issue of gmail disappearing from inbox is not related to the phone at all, nor to logging in the website.
Whenever mail is downloaded via POP, it does get marked as retrieved, so it can’t be downloaded twice. If you check the All Mail label, it will still be there, but can’t be downloaded again, unless you select “retrieve all mail” on your Gmail’s preferences, which is annoying…
I believe that a solution for this is forwarding the e-mail to another server…
Cheers,
Francis
December 28th, 2006 at 5:19 am
Tim/Admin: My Gmail or yahoo all goes into a loop as described by TIM earlier. My settings are as per whats mentioned in this blog
i am not sure what is it that i am missing
vik
January 4th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Great blog!
Q: I got this gmail thing working ‘n all: I can send and receive e-mails, but the strange thing is, when I want to retrieve only new e-mails, it also retrieves old e-mails. The shitty thing is that it retrieves only the 350 oldest e-mails and never retrieves the newer ones.
Billy.
February 3rd, 2007 at 5:57 am
It need hours to get gmail work with the E61. I tried everything and this helped:
change to the newest firmware
if you restore the saved settings, delete the old gmail account (important!)
set
ingoing to pop.googlemail.com SSL/TLS Port Standard (or 995)
outgoing to smtp.googlemail.com SSL/TLS Port Standard (or 465)
And: set you email-adress to xyz@googlemail.com (not xyz@gmail.com)
February 9th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Thanks a lot. Untrusted certificate has been a real pain in back.
February 24th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Hi — I tried the Equifax certificate solution for my Google GMaps — but this didn’t do the trick. GMaps still asks, in a continuous loop, “Allow application Mobile GMaps to use network and send or receive data?”
Nothing works. If you have a work-around, I’d sure appreciate it.
THanks,
Tim
March 12th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Hi!
i have bought a new e60 handset and have done all setting for my google mail to work, but it say general: operation time out” . i am in india and on hutch carrier.
help me!!
thanks
March 13th, 2007 at 9:31 am
The Nokia E61 is designed to test your patience to the limit. My current problem is that I am unable to receive or send emails through my Tiscali mail servers (pop.tiscali.co.uk and smtp.tiscali.co.uk respectively). I am using the GPRS connection through Virgin. I have tried every permutation of settings but the phone hangs with the “connecting” message. I had a similar problem with my University email, which I was able to resolve by entering a new port number that the University provided. Unfortunately, I don’t have a specific port number for Tiscali and so am floundering around testing ports described on various forums for other service providers but without success. I have written to Tiscali and will post their response if they get back with an effective solution (i.e, port spec). Any help in the meantime would be gratefully received……..!
March 15th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Gmail did not work for me too till I set the language to US English and bingo has worked ever since
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:37 am
If you put “recent:” in front of your username in your POP3 settings, your GMAIL will not delete when you recieve new email. It worked for me and have several weeks of email on my mobile POP3 inbox. I heard it will keep emails that are less than 30 days old, so I’m told, but have not done it long enough to check.
March 30th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Dear Friends ,
where do i make my settings changes on the E61.I recd all the messages in my inbox on the mobile and deleted them.Now when i refresh it says no messages here.
I receive only those messages which are replied to on my mobile.Am in a fix as i require to receive my patients emails while on the move .
Amit Saiya
March 31st, 2007 at 12:33 am
I did something else, I forwarded my Google Mail to mymail@mail2web.com, and then set up Mail4Exchange on my E61, and it works like a charm. Also, I forwarded all of my emails, or I collect them through the Email Aggregator on mail2web site.
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:48 am
pacer is great …
i need 20 times to setting gmail on e61…
pacer’s trick is working on my e61.
thanks alot pacer
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:09 pm
I can’t tell you how much this site helped me!
I love each and every single one of you!
xx
May 7th, 2007 at 9:26 am
i have just received my nokia E61i. i got all the settings from nokia configurator and have set um my email mailboxes. the problem is that i can access my gamail but for some reason i caccot send any email. when i reply to a message or compose a new one i get a message sayin ünable to send to …”can anyone help me with this ?thanks
May 30th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
For gmail why don’t you just use the gmail java app instead…it retains the functionality of the messaged thread that gmail is so known for. I honestly can’t figure out what email to push since my hotmail account is like garbage and my gmail is for everything else and I use the java app for that
May 30th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
download http://www.gmail.com/app from your phone browser you will never go to pop mail settings.
June 8th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
i used Pedro’s setting, i get the malbaox username and password screen.
when i press ok instead of opning the mail box it reappears.
can anybody help me in resolving this.
many thanx.
vkv
July 31st, 2007 at 12:58 pm
All,
Im able to send messages.. When i retrieve mails i dont get to see the recent mails. The newest mail in phone inbox is as old as one year.. The mails i send to myself are showing up on web mail but never showup on mobiles inbox.
Please help!
August 6th, 2007 at 5:18 am
Hi everytime i tried to connect to gmail through my E65 mailbox, even after i tried the settings on the forum, i was promtped : Internet: Server not found
August 14th, 2007 at 6:25 am
hi i have a nokia e90. I am also struggling to get the pop3 to take on the phone. I have enable my gmail to take pop3 and reset up all my settings. Yet it does not want to connect.the phone just keeps on saying connecting but,does not connect. Can anybody pls help.? Is the other settings i can use for my phone?
August 28th, 2007 at 8:21 am
to the guy suggested to enable pop access on gmail..TIM? mannn u a star thanx for the advice.. to think that was the cause of all my stress
to the other guys who contributed to a very informative site, great work guys.. keep it up!
August 29th, 2007 at 2:02 am
Hello, I have got an E65 recently…while going thru the wizard set up i have created accidentally an yahoomail plus and an yahoomail plus 1 configuration accounts, which i need to delete, but not sure how do i do that…pls help
September 12th, 2007 at 7:46 am
hey,
I am having alot of trouble with my TX and email on versa…I am trying to send/receive through my GMAIL account, but I keep getting error messages - previously was can’t connect to APOP. Now it is no response from SMTP server and I am not receiving or sending any of my emails…can anyone help me it would be really appreciated!!!!!
Pierre
September 18th, 2007 at 11:08 am
this is a used pc given to me by a friend when i first got it i bought a verizon acct and everything was fine then something happened i think it was a virus so i sent it out to mr.comp doctor who sent it back with mozilla fire fox as a security service.then something happened again and i keep getting pop ups stating that my ssl protocol is disabled this means i keep paying for a service that i can not access along with my email iam at my wits end can anyone help me
September 18th, 2007 at 11:11 am
i guess this means no one can help me thanks anyway
October 12th, 2007 at 1:10 am
So email on the E61 really works super well.
Just to confirm and collect the best 2 tips from the above:
1. Incoming
username=recent:youurname@gmail.com
server=pop.googlemail.com
security=SSL/TLS
port=995
2. Outgoing
username=youurname@gmail.com
server=smtp.googlemail.com
security=SSL/TLS
port=465
Note the “recent:” prefix in the pop username field. This is some google extra that creates a fake inbox with only the recent (last 30 days?) emails form your mail account.
This is so you don’t start downloading all your e-mail since you first opened your gmail account.
With this service and VoIP I don’t think I will need to pay the cell phone company one cent. Yeeeey for technology. And thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread and the owner of the blog for hosting this.
Peace
October 20th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
# captainbh Says:
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:37 am
If you put “recent:” in front of your username in your POP3 settings, your GMAIL will not delete when you recieve new email. It worked for me and have several weeks of email on my mobile POP3 inbox. I heard it will keep emails that are less than 30 days old, so I’m told, but have not done it long enough to check.
—
THANK YOU!!!!!!! IT WORKED!!!!!
January 12th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Is it just me but it does not work. I have a E62 nokia.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Me too, I migrated from Treo180 to Nokia E61i (previously using Nokia5120 => SE-T226 => Nokia2600 => SE K700i) and happy til now.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:08 am
My E61i had Yahoo Mail Plus pre-installed here in Chile. I installed the same and now I have 2 Yahoo Mail Plus installed, but can’t uninstall. Any hints?
March 13th, 2008 at 7:15 am
admin: I have installed Yahoo Go! and read email with no problems and don’t have Premiun Account nor Plus Account.
Mitchell: I’ts very easy to install, just download te E61i version from yahoo, install, choose wireless connection and that’s all.
Bye