To setup email on your Sony Ericsson Phone, you need to make sure it has email functionality, a connection to a mobile phone/cell provider that supports internet access via GSM, GPRS or 3G and if possible it is best to use your phone providers support department to get the email configured and tested as they will know of the settings not only for the mobile phone, but also for their network.
Email Primer
To fully understand how the configuration of email on the Sony Ericsson phone is done, a quick and short 101 on electronic mail is in order.
For an email to be sent successfully from one electronic device (computer, cell phone, PDA) to the another, you need the following.
An email client (software installed on the sending electronic device), the email client composes, formats and encrypts message before passing it to the SMTP server via the mobile phone cellular onto the internet. The smtp server acts as a messenger and relays the message including any attachments to the email server of the intended recipient.
To sucessfully configure your Sony Ericsson's phone email client, you will therefore need the details of your cellular's network smtp server if they provide this service, otherwise you can pay a 3rd party (ISP) or if you have the technical knowledge, can use your own smtp server. Due to the increasing problem of spam, anyone providing a smtp server will either require you to send emails to the server from their network or ask you provide a username and password to authenticate in order to send messages.
Sending Email from a Sony Ericsson K750i phone using your Mobile Network
Once you have taken your cell phone out of the box, fully charged it up, inserted the SIM card, switched it on and can make phone calls you need to visit Sony Ericsson's phone setup page where you can get the settings sent directly to your phone. Other mobile phone manufactures have similar facilities, so visit their website and check their support section for details of how these can be sent to your particular individual phone.
With the appropriate settings sent to your phone, make sure you press the OK button when asked if you want to install the settings on your phone. You should now be able to follow the instructions in your mobile phone's manual to send a test email.
sony ericsson phone manual email settings
On the Sony Ericsson Phone, press the menu button, choose messaging (envelope), scroll down to email and press select.
In email scroll down to settings (quicker if you scroll up), press select, scroll to account settings, select, and add new account (you can call the name anything you like).
Select connect using, and choose your networks WAP setting (this GSM), Enhanced (this uses the GPRS network and is currently charged at 0.5p per Kb in the UK), or 3G if you have Web and Walk or other type of mobile data service.
Under Protocol leave as POP3, only change to IMAP4 if you know what it means.
Incoming Server Enter here the name of the mail server from which you will be downloading your mobile mail, this could be googlemail, hotmail or your home broadband's service. Don't use the server you use at home for normal email, unless you want to download these to your mobile phone (this could be very costly if you get a lot of email/spam or large attachments).
Incoming port Leave as 110.
Encryption Leave default non.
Mailbox Enter here the username as supplied by your ISP/Network provider.
Password As supplied with username.
Outgoing Server This is the smtp server that you will use to send outgoing mail. Due to spam issues, you will need to use either your private one or one supplied by an ISP that supports send after POP3 authentication. No other form of smtp authentication will work with the Sony Ericsson K750i, as the supplied software doesn't currently support smtp authentication. I use my own private smtp server installed at home connected to a broadband line.
Outgoing port This is normally 25, but I have changed it to a different number to prevent my private smtp server at home from being used as a spam relay.
Email Address Enter the email address you want all emails from your mobile phone to be sent from. If you want to see replies on your mobile, then this will be the address supplied by your ISP/Network provider as above (mailbox).
Download I have this set as Headers & Text since I don't get any emails sent to my mobile address. To reduce cost if you get a lot of emails on your mobile address, you can change to headers only, this will give you basic information like sender, date/time and subject.
From Name I set this to Sony Ericcson Mobile, you can put any name you want.
Signature You can put here any text you want added to the bottom of all emails sent, e.g. mobile phone number, text to indicate email was sent from mobile etc.
Copy Outgoing I have this sent to off, as I'm not sure what it does (copies of sent email are still left in sent emails folder).
Check Interval I have this off, but if you need to automatically check for emails, set to the required time interval (again be careful as this could run up a bill).
Once finished, select Done. You should now have configured a cellular data connection with the correct email settings. Press back button twice to return to the Email menu. Scroll to Write New where you can compose a test email and send. If everything works you should see the phone dial (WAP) or just connect, find the server and send the email.
If you have problems, double check the email settings, the important ones are incoming server, incoming port, mailbox, password, outgoing server, outgoing port. If the problem is you can receive but unable to send, then check outgoing settings, if you can send without receiving check incoming settings. If you get server not found, then either your GSM, GPRS or 3G cellular connections are not working or setup properly, or one of the settings are not correct, you can either get the settings resent to you mobile phone and try again or contact the support department.
I hope you enjoy using your Sony Ericsson mobile phone to send and check emails while out and about.
