How does cable internet with pop3 mail work with Treos

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Hello

I'm thinking of getting a Treos 600 from Bell Mobility in Toronto. My pop3 account is with Rogers hi-speed internet. I
connect through my cable modem through to my pop3 mailbox.

When I have a Treos, how does it connect to Roger's server. Does Bell Canada connect me to the internet and give me an
SMTP outbound path for my mail, and connect me to my Rogers pop3 server? Do I just use my normal pop3 and smtp server
names and passwords?

Thanks

Harry

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>"Harry" <harry-fine@rogers.com> wrote in message
>news:4236d994.2181234@nntp.broadband.rogers.com...
>> Hello
>>
>> I'm thinking of getting a Treo 600 from Bell Mobility in Toronto. My
>> pop3 account is with Rogers hi-speed internet. I
>> connect through my cable modem through to my pop3 mailbox.

The Treo 650 from Rogers, just started selling, is _much_ nicer. Spenier,
but nicer.

>> When I have a Treo, how does it connect to Rogers' servers? Does Bell
>> Canada connect me to the internet and give me an
>> SMTP outbound path for my mail, and connect me to my Rogers pop3 server?

Best way to go.

>> Do I just use my normal pop3 and smtp server names and passwords?

Never set that up on Bell Mobility. Some carriers (T-Mobile, forex)
require you to route your outbound mail traffic through a special SMTP
server, so they can make soure you're not spamming, as well as possibly
other reasons I don't yet grok. But, they do, so a special setup may be
requires.

There's no newsgroup for Bell Mobility, so your best bet to find a Bell
Mobility PDA user would be alt.cellular.cdma. Looking in web boards like
those hosted by www.pdaphonehomes.com for Bell Mobility user ifo could be
useful, as would calling Bell Mobility Tech Support and asking them for the
e-mail configuration settings so you could see what's involved.


>For receiving email you should be able to point to your phne to the pop3
>server from your normal ISP. For sending you may have an issue. I use
>Earthlink and they will not allow me to send email through their SMTP
>servers unless I am connected to the Earthlink domain (ie from my home or
>dial-up connection). I have to send email through the phone company's mail
>server which is no big deal really.
>
>Another way to do this is to get the phone provisioned for CSD if Bell
>supports it. This is sort of a "virtual" modem connection which would allow
>you to dial up your ISP directly, assuming that Rogers provides dial-up
>access when you're not at home.

*Groan* 14.4kbps maximum, huuuuuge latency. You'll be sorrrr-rrrrrry!


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