Sending and receiving gmail on SPV M2000

[Guest katiea]

I have a new SPV M2000, very nice new toy. I particularly like being able to nick everyone else's wifi connection, er, use wifi at home rather than have to use up my data package.

So we have plusnet and if I set up the outgoing email with orange settings, emails won't send through plusnet, and if I set up the outgoing email with Plusnet settings, they won't send through Orange. I totally understand why that is.

However it was suggested on here that you can use gmail POP and that will solve the problem. Ha.

I've got it to receive OK, after a few false starts*, but it won't send. I have it set to authenticate on send, I have turned POP on and off and on again at the Gmail end, I have it set to use SSL, but it still won't send.

Has anyone actually got this to work, or is it a myth???

Katie

*Did you know if you set it to use POP "from now on" then it deletes all your earlier emails every time you download new ones??!

[Guest brykins]

I've got it to receive OK, after a few false starts*, but it won't send.  I have it set to authenticate on send, I have turned POP on and off and on again at the Gmail end, I have it set to use SSL, but it still won't send.

It may well be because Gmail's smtp server is on a non-standard port. If I remember correctly the smtp is on port 465 - not sure what email client you are using and if there is a setting for the port number, but that *may* be the cause of it.

[Guest katiea]

There's no port setting possible but I have tried using smtp.gmail.com:465 as suggested elsewhere and that didn't work. Also tried 25 but no luck with that either.

It also seems to delete ALL incoming mail once you've read it, so that's a bit useless: that is, it remains in Gmail's inbox but disappears from the SPV.

So for the moment I'm trying 2 separate pop accounts: current glitch is it's telling me I "already have an account with that name". Not sure if it means my login name or the pop account name!

[Guest katiea]

Update: I worked out it wanted a new name for the email account i.e. one called Orange and one called Plusnet. So that's my current workaround.

But if anyone knows an smtp route that will allow sending both from Orange and from Plusnet, I'll be eternally grateful.

[Guest dynastykai]

Update: I worked out it wanted a new name for the email account i.e. one called Orange and one called Plusnet.  So that's my current workaround.

But if anyone knows an smtp route that will allow sending both from Orange and from Plusnet, I'll be eternally grateful.

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use this type it exactlly like that

pop.gmail.com:995

smtp.gmail.com:465