Gmail IMAP on Windows PocketPC
Posted Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 9:55 amToday Google released an IMAP interface to Gmail. Once you enable IMAP via Settings in your Gmail account, you then need to configure your client to access Gmail via the new IMAP interface.
Since I’ve never been able to figure out how to get the Gmail for mobile application to run on my Windows Pocket PC (because I can’t find a J2ME Java client), adding IMAP now gives me the ability to ditch their Gmail for mobile browser interface and instead use the built-in Messaging client on my phone, which is also known as Outlook Mobile.
And since Google’s Help Center on the “Supported IMAP Client List” didn’t include instructions on how to set up a Windows Mobile Pocket PC, I thought I’d create a brief tutorial. All steps are made within the Messaging client (Start > Messaging).
Step 1: Menu > Tools > New Account
Step 2: Enter your full Gmail email address
Step 3: Wait or skip the Auto Configuration
Step 4: Enter name, username (sans @gmail.com), password
Step 5: Select IMAP4 and name the account
Step 6: Incoming is imap.gmail.com, Outgoing is smtp.gmail.com
Step 7: In Options, set Connection frequency
Step 8: Require SSL and Authentication are necessary
Step 9: Headers Only make things quick
Step 10: Menu > Switch Accounts & Menu > Send/Receive to test
