Gmail notifier on the homescreen... how?

[Guest Krib]

I've seen a couple homescreens here that show the email notifier as pointing to gmail. How is that being done? I know how to change the title in the .XML, but the only way I've found to get to gmail on my smartphone is to browse to it on the web.

Thanks in advance!

[Guest flodis79]

I've seen a couple homescreens here that show the email notifier as pointing to gmail. How is that being done? I know how to change the title in the .XML, but the only way I've found to get to gmail on my smartphone is to browse to it on the web.

Thanks in advance!

Maybe they have push email to their gmail account and just labelled the mail counter to 'Gmail' on their homescreen... I have never got the pop3 on googlemail.com to work with a smartphone..

[Guest pavankp]

Maybe they have push email to their gmail account and just labelled the mail counter to 'Gmail' on their homescreen... I have never got the pop3 on googlemail.com to work with a smartphone..

I have gmail working with POP3 on my SP5. To set it up go to Outlook->Options->Account Options. Create a new account called Gmail, and enter your @gmail.com email ID. Check the "Attempt to obtain e-mail settings from the Internet" checkbox. Click Next and it should work.

Once you have Gmail set up as a POP3 account, you can add plugin XML to show it on your home screen. That looks like:

<plugin clsid="{8486CC1E-025B-4888-9C76-048DF7C1787D}" name="msgcount2" height="17" autoheight="false">

	<text halign="center" padding-bottom="1"/>

	<background>

		<format state="selected" bgcolor="COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHT"/>

	</background>

	<mail account="others"/>

</plugin>

Pavan

[Guest Casao]

Another posibility that'd also show you the subject of incoming mail is to use an RSS reader homescreen plugin and point it toward your gmail account (I've never done this myself, so I can't say how well it'll work, but in theory it's golden.)

Also, another point - gmail isn't an exchange server, so there's no push email from gmail. Best you can do is set it up in outlook, as described above.

[Guest prk72]

I have gmail working with POP3 on my SP5. To set it up go to Outlook->Options->Account Options. Create a new account called Gmail, and enter your @gmail.com email ID. Check the "Attempt to obtain e-mail settings from the Internet" checkbox. Click Next and it should work.

Once you have Gmail set up as a POP3 account, you can add plugin XML to show it on your home screen. That looks like:

<plugin clsid="{8486CC1E-025B-4888-9C76-048DF7C1787D}" name="msgcount2" height="17" autoheight="false">

	<text halign="center" padding-bottom="1"/>

	<background>

		<format state="selected" bgcolor="COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHT"/>

	</background>

	<mail account="others"/>

</plugin>

Pavan

I tried the above code and the only time it will show up is if I have an unread message. How can you always have your POP account showing on the homescreen even if you don't have an unread message?

Thanks.