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Set up your mobile phone for POP3 email
You can set up your mobile phone to send and receive email from your email accounts. Using POP3, your email are retrieved and stored locally on your mobile phone and at the same time they're deleted from the server. It is therefore not possible to access your email from different devices. Before you can set up your mobile phone for POP3 email, you need to set up your mobile phone for internet.


Tap the Navigation key.


Select Messages.


Select Email.


Tap the Left selection key.


Select Email accounts.


Tap the Left selection key.


Select New account.


Select Other Email accounts.


Key in your email address and tap the Navigation key.


Select POP3.


Select Automatic.


Select Next.


Key in the name of your email provider's incoming server and tap the Navigation key. If Optus is your email provider, key in mail.optusnet.com.au as your incoming server.


Key in smtp.optusnet.com.au and tap the Navigation key.


Key in the username for your email account and tap the Navigation key.


Key in the password for your email account and tap the Navigation key.


Key in a name for the email account and tap the Navigation key.


Tap Disconnect to return to the home screen.