Now, we receive dozens of emails per day with some being more crucial than others.
As I mentioned before in other articles I don’t own a hi-tech smart phone.
Rather, I bring along a low-budget cell phone.
Yet checking my email is one of its primary uses.
So here’s how to set up email on your cell phone to check your messages comfortably.
This can normally be done by placing an ’m.'
before the usual URL such asm.yahoo.com.
Most of the basic options are available such as compose, send, receive and delete.
Normally, this can be found under the messaging icon where you send SMS messages from.
Just look around until you findemail.
It’s exact location will differ slightly depending on your phone.
Then, using ‘Options’ create a new account.
Enter you name and other information asked.
This can be done by Googling the following: ‘Service Nameemail server addresses’.
Then enter in your username and password as you would when logging in on your machine.
Once the email account is created you should be able to send/receive emails.
Lastly, double-check that POP3 is enabled in your email’s controls by using the web interface.
For example, I currently have my phone set up to check emails every thirty minutes.
Normally a setting for this can be found under the account options in the email program on your phone.
Look out for ‘Retrieve Interval’, ‘Polling controls’ and other such phrases.
When you have set it up on your phone it should be able to retrieve emails automatically.
One problem I had with this in the past was with my email account and not the phone.
By default, it was set to not allow automatic retrieval for security reasons.
Obviously, using a basic cell phone for this task does have its drawbacks.
GPRS charges can be expensive depending on what country you live in so watch out.
Contact your internet provider to see if there is a package with cheaper or free data allowances.
That said, most phones will only download the email’s contact info (i.e.
Having something as basic as email set up on your phone will vastly increase its usefulness and your productivity.
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