dear friends as first i'm happy to join this forum, i just buy last week the 770 and i'm happy to had buy it, but i have just one problem to solve......IMAP
I' currently work with 2 IMAP e-mail account on my laptop, my smartphone SEP910, my home computer and so on, when i try to setup the 770 with the same parameters when i check the mail report me or a generic "Error" and no more or told me that user or pwd, or port or.... are wrong!!!!! But are the same that i use everyday on the other systems......anybody had the same problem? Anybody could help me?
thank you

If you're using the embedded mail reader Error often occurs even if the setup is correct.
Try to use Sylpheed instead.

db

How many 770 users, I wonder, are NOT using IMAP email, and if not, why not? If anyone doesn't understand the advantages of IMAP email they shouldn't be shy about saying so. Doing without IMAP email if you have a 770 would be, well, silly and if this is happening then it needs to be addressed.

I don't use IMAP. I'm using POP3 to access my Verizon email account. I have a GMAIL account but I am not using IMAP with it. What are the advantages?

If my work is pop3 and my ISP is pop3, is their an easy way to get the advantages of IMAP? I guess I could forward all the traffic..
David

If I understand the difference (I'm a bit rusty on this topic), using the POP protocol means you download the email every time you look at it -- which means that all of your email goes to one computer or device. IMAP allows you to access it without forcing you to download it -- which is useful if you are reading work email away from your office computer (assuming that is where you want to keep it).

A way around this problem is to use a web interface to read your email -- just like gmail, but without its drawbacks.

Geoff

IMAP is clearly the way to go. Here's a good, short explanation of it. Basically, IMAP means that your email is 'out there' somewhere and not subject to the storage limits of your local device (PC or 770, for instance) and you can access it from any device no matter where you are, as long as you have an Internet connection. If you've ever lost your email because your PC's hard drive failed, or because you bought a new PC and you didn't know how to move your email to your new PC then you suffered from the POP way of doing email and you would not have lost your mail if it had been stored and manipulated on an email server that was remote to you, and available to you.

When using IMAP you can avail yourself of all the spam and junk mail filtering on the remote system. A single person could easily set up an IMAP email service that would contain all the protections that we need in email, but instead of us all implementing these protections individually on our 770's, these are implemented just once, up there on the IMAP server.

Although Google doesn't actually use IMAP it does offer a version of POP that imitates the way IMAP works. Here's a comment from Reggie regarding 770 email.

As of now, using the 770's native Mail app is useless even with IMAP. Even when I configured an account IMAP account, it retrieves the email with no problems, the problem however lies in syncing mail with your account which doesn't happen. I tried the following:

1. Retrieved email on the 770 - worked.
2. Retrieved and deleted several email (spam) from my PC using a different client. I made sure to resync again so the server would delete the email internally.
3. Retrieved again using the 770. Supposedly, the 770 mail app should be smart enough to sync the contents since it is using IMAP, but the emails that I deleted from the PC is still on the 770.

I can conclude that the 770 mail app doesn't sync with the mail server. It just keeps on retrieving emails. This would make the internal email database bigger and bigger and slower and slower since it keeps on sorting when you click on a folder on the left side.

The mail app is not ready until they fix this issue. For the mean time, I suggest you use an online email client.

Sylpheed seems to be very promising. Although the current version is not good enough for everyday use, mainly because it doesn't appear in the task list, you can definately see that when the next version comes out, it will completely replace any other means of reading emails on 770.

You can go in and do housecleaning and delete the xml file the native client uses. The sad thing is (I think) that the internal database never gets cleaned up. If you delete a downloaded mail the message content gets deleted but the xml file that tracks that header seems to just mark it as "deleted" and keep it forever.

Hopefully Nokia has put some serious effort into this for 2006.
David