MobileMe on your Nokia S60 phone

by jaganath on August 1, 2008

If you have subscribed to the Apple MobileMe service and have a Nokia S60 handset, you may like to receive your mails on that phone too. It is pretty simple to configure. Here is a screenshot walkthrough. These instructions should apply for S60 v3 handsets like Nokia N95, N95 8GB, N96, N82, N73, N78 and several other e-series phones.

Lets get started.

If you have not defined a mailbox, you will get this message:

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Select Yes.

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Select IMAP4 as mailbox type

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Type your MobileMe email address.

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For the incoming mail server, type mail.me.com

Similarly, for  step 4, type smtp.me.com as the outgoing email server.

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I usually select "Always Ask" as the access point choice. Select your choice here.

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For the mailbox name, give a descriptive name like "MobileMe". Now press Finish. We are not done yet.

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Go back to your messaging screen and select settings.

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Select MobileMe. On the next screen, select Incoming mail settings. You have to change a few options in this screen.

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Type your MobileMe username and password.

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Change the security setting to SSL/TLS and port to user defined. Change the port to 993 (Most likely it is already chosen as 993, if not change it).

For the outgoing email settings, just type in your username and password and leave everything else with the default values.

You can now go back to your MobileMe account on the messaging screen and select "Connect". You should see your mails getting downloaded. Since this is an IMAP account, as long as you do not disconnect you will get your new mails automatically updated (which Apple calls as "push").

Unfortunately, it is not possible to sync your calendar and contacts using this method. If you want to sync them regularly, use the Nokia Multimedia Transfer or the PC Suite depending upon whether you use a Mac or PC.

Related: Gmail IMAP on your S60 phone.

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