Comments on: T-Mobile G1 POP3/IMAP email? Not so good.

By: Mr Bob

Mr Bob — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:45:25 +0000

I recieve email fine, but can NOT send it, except to myself, or my provider. Anyone else, it stays in the out box! It worked fine for first three months, then it gave up sending

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:23:17 +0000

Major fail. It’s disappointing. Sometimes the emails come through, but I would say more than half the time, they don’t come through. I try to delete email messages and they stay. I have another email address I’ve been trying to set up and it wont let me at all. It says it can’t connect with the server.
TMobile needs to get working on this……

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:15:47 +0000

Shoot, at least many of y’all can set up your POP3 account. Mine keeps saying that it can’t finish setting anything up.

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:55:09 +0000

I recenly got a G1 and while its a great piece of kit I cant get my emails to set uo. I got the googlemail fine but not my POP3 account.
I just get the words ‘Checking incoming server settings’ and the animated progress bar
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By: Iyzere

Iyzere — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:36:53 +0000

I agree.

By: Iyzere

Iyzere — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:34:14 +0000

Only had the G1 for 1 week and I am please to announce that I have successfull received 1 email. Not only that but I have had the pleasure to spend a minimum of 45 minutes on line with 3 different members of t-mo tech support to find out that I have found out nothing (get it?). I was reluctant to purchase the G1 because i was concerned about the email aspect not being the greatest for external accounts but saw a buddy receiveing yahoo mail as if yahoo was the only mail provider. Sad to say i turned down a Iphone to purchase the G1 for 1 email. Oh did i mention that i spent a minimum of 45 minutes on the phone with 3 different reps and that is 45 minutes each?

By: nelson

nelson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:47:07 +0000

G1 killahhh!

By: alexpacman

alexpacman — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:25:50 +0000

hey all!
i have a g1 and its blocked/locked or w/e and it keeps asking me for an email+password, however i cant remember it..
ive created a new email and password and it still does nothing so i have no other options..
any help please?!

By: sheilagh

sheilagh — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:27:53 +0000

I too set up my gmail account to pick up my pop3 email. My receiving emails is good, sending hasn’t ever worked for me yet and things in my trash don’t stay “deleted”. I get connection error and all the emails I deleted from my trash folder, come back. Support team said “try deleing my email account & re adding it”.

By: Gman

Gman — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:37:35 +0000

Had a G1 for over 6 months and sync gmail, yahoo and btmail without any probs. Question: How do you reply to a non-gmail email without it showing as coming from the G1 gmail account? Answers on a postcard…. The best thing would be a for an all bells and whistles email app upgrade. Thanks, Gman

By: J. Burton

J. Burton — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:50:56 +0000

Email works fine (for the most part). A few “null” emails but very few. My issue is deleting emails. When I delete from my “trash” folder … they get moved to … my “trash” folder. How does one go about clearing out this folder?

By: John L

John L — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:07:31 +0000

G1 owner since last Fall when T-Mobile made available. Email has never worked on my phone except for Google’s version, and the much touted “Synching” is seriously flawed on that. I have literally spent frustrating hours trying to set-up work and personal accounts, to no avail.. tech support is quickly reachable but unable to help… and the constant advice to “Power off and remove battery” is damnably annoying to point of “5th Floors” temptation ~ toss it… I will look up K(, thanks for the positive words on options from users who do more than whine here

By: renovatio08

renovatio08 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:36:49 +0000

Just got a G1 for myself. Used BB 8320 Curve for a year before that. Very dissatisfied with G1 for the only reason that pop email does not work at all. On my old BlackBerry I used to receive emails from yahoo, hotmail, and gmail accounts right away, live time, as they arrive. On G1, however, I have to set up how frequent my phone will check my email, with 5 minutes as the most frequent. Whenever I read or delete a message, G1 does not sync it with my account as my old BB did. Also takes forever to send emails. Although, these difficulties were only noticed on yahoo and hotmail accounts. NOT gmail, of course… My conclusion: trash G1 or freakin’ improve the system so that it’s at least as convenient/efficient as BlackBerry.

By: Keith Leonard

Keith Leonard — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:42:37 +0000

Until recently I thought it was working, but it wasn’t. Basically I can receive e-mail just fine on my G1, but I cannot send e-mail. It gets moved to the sent folder, and if I attempt to delete it, at THAT point it sends it, but it doesn’t actually delete the e-mail from the sent folder.

I realized this when I tried to empty the sent folder of my pop3 account from my G1 and e-mails several months old were finally sent out to people, and of course they made no sense at all. Then I noticed later that those same e-mails that I had deleted showed up again in the sent folder.

I am no longer using this phone feature. Now I use the web interfaces for my various e-mail accounts. Not great…not horrid.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:44:16 +0000

I have had a G1 since Oct08 and since the last 2 updates from T-mobile UK, my BTInternet and Hotmail email accounts have gone tits up. Constant connection errors, blank emails with only time stamps on them and constantly increasing number of unread emails, even though they have been read.
Along with this it locks out the touchscreen and keypad, really annoying when trying to end a call. Only route is to dis-connect battery.
Before touch screen keypad update, this phone was spot on. Since the updates, an open window on a 5th floor looks reaaly tempting.

By: jr32016

jr32016 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:26:14 +0000

Not sure what you guys are doing but I DO NOT have any issues with POP3 or IMAP emails for Exchange Sync I use Touchdown awesome it’s worth to buy it on the G1 Market. support it’s really Superb.

G1 it’s the best phone I ever have besides my Treo’s 650 & 700w, BlackBerry 8900, HTC Tilt I have a huge list of brands and models I’d used

By: Bill Smiff

Bill Smiff — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:57:51 +0000

i have a g1 with hotmail Gmail and ymail and all is working fine if you now what youre doing the phone is a superb piece of kit and it will get better

By: machard13

machard13 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:31:38 +0000

The email app the phone comes with has issues. I spoke to TMobile GI specialist and they have no clue how to fix it. The work around is to not delete the emails from the phone. If you do once they are in the trash you cant get rid of them. The only way is to delete your account on the phone and reset it up. Which sucks beyond belief.

ryannosaurus.rexx was correct on using K-9, I re downloaded the latest app and it works good for Hot mail and POP accounts. Also you have the option to delete the email on the phone only or also off the server. Which is a great option.

Only flaw is that not all email attachments are possible to open, but its a far cry from where the phone was 3 months ago. A few more updates and I’m sure it will be as good or almost as good as the black berry. I hope getting tired of carrying two phones.

By: terry workman

terry workman — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:17:45 +0000

I get all my emais the problem is the counter keeps going up the number grow by the day I delete the emals but the numbers go up I can not reset the counter can you help me out . I sent it in to htc they replaced the maim board sent it back it is still doing the same thing can anyone help me please thank you. Terry

By: ryannosaurus.rexx

ryannosaurus.rexx — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:34:29 +0000

Guys, seriously, has anyone gone to the Market and searched for EMAIL? There is a GREAT email app on there called K9. It’s been available for months now, and is still in active development.

As christaexport said back in November, this is an OPEN SOURCE project and some enterprising coders will fix it. Well guess what? K9 is a modified version of the stock (crappy) email app. Try to get Apple to let anyone access their code.

It works very well, for both IMAP and POP accounts, and adds tons of new features.

And honestly, in today’s software market, most software is released as final when it should be beta, and we the consumer are expected to cope with it during an endless stream of updates and bugfixes. Better get used to it guys.

By: jesse

jesse — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:03:09 +0000

I am a net admin and I agree with the state of this software. Both imap and pop fail to consistenly receive and send email. Very frustrating. I end up having to create a new gmail account for each work account and “piggybacking” off that.

By: quint

quint — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:34:17 +0000

moderator,
my misfired post went through quickly, but the full post still hasn’t. Did you get it? or don’t you allow links, or something?

By: quint

quint — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:19:28 +0000

I have a G-1

By: fred parker

fred parker — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:18:51 +0000

I dont know if this will help anyone else, but I could not get the connection settings correct to bring in virgin.net mail, all I got was connection errors, i solved it by simply setting incomming server manualy, and when it got stuck on the next stage for outgoing server I inputted my user name and password but then unchecked the box that instructs it to be used, the setup then completed and I now have perfect connections and get my mail.

By: bret

bret — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:04:09 +0000

I almost never get an email unless I open my email and hit refresh, yes I’ve checked my sync settings. What I hate most is the inability to add any attatchments other than pictures and the fact that 75% of the attatchments I receive are not veiwable on my device. I fucking hate the email on this phone, its shit. Blackberry kicks its ass. Is anyone adressing these issues? Am I the only one who is bothered by the attatchment issues?

By: Mike Vaillancourt

Mike Vaillancourt — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:34:55 +0000

My last phone was WinMo and the phone before it was Blackberry. I switched to the G1 because my WinMo phone was crashing on a regular basis. So far the G1 has worked perfectly. I have 4 email accounts setup + the gmail account and so far, so good.

Since all of the negative feedback seems to be coming from T-Mobile haters and they can not back up their comments I think I will keep it

By: Machard13

Machard13 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:17:21 +0000

In the past week I was able to set up both Hotmail accounts on my G1. Also have 2 Pop based emails working as well. So as I have been critical to say the the phone don’t work. I can say that now I am using it to see and reply to emails.

There are some limitations for the email but its best to quick view email and respond with limited options. Signature must be set up prior to using a specific account.

So at long last I can say the email option that the G1 came with is working sorta. For the most part the issue of downloading email takes some time but it is working. I guess TMobile got their act together and finally got it to work.

I was going to demand my money back from TMobile since it had been over 3 months since I got the phone and this feature wasn’t working. Just the a small margin they have bought more time.

Now for those that ask how I did it? No special software to direct you to. Just the app that came with the phone. I just followed the steps that it asks. No weird situaiton just follow the steps.

Some relief and less a sour feeling when I look at the phone now.

By: funked*up

funked*up — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:36:19 +0000

Try to set up an email forwarding instead. this would resolve your concerns abt imap/pop3 set up on ur G1 device. or else, better throw the device out of your window.

By: David

David — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:46:27 +0000

The G1 is supposed to be the best phone out there, why cant they figure out the GD email. This phone seems useless for business if you cant get email????I have pop3 webmail account, any ideas of how to make it work or get an app for it?

By: ezra

ezra — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:54:14 +0000

how did you get it fixed?