Can't set up Push email

[Mettaman]

I'm having problems setting up my Gmail account with the HTC push email widget. I did enter my Gmail account details when I first set up the phone and they were accepted.

I'll walk you through what I do.

1. Go to home screen with large Mail widget then click on it.

2. Click 'Other (POP3/IMAP)'

3. I then enter my email address and password. They are definitely correct. Then I press 'Next'.

4. I then arrive at the 'Incoming Settings' page.

5. I choose IMAP.

6. My email address is already there. My username is there, albeit with 'googlemail' following it (I have tried deleting that - still didn't work).

7. My password is already there.

8. Under 'IMAP Server' it has 'googlemail.com'.

9. I leave the 'Security Type' ('None') and 'Server Port' ('143')

10. I press 'Next'.

11. It says: 'Verifying 'Account Information'.

12. Message comes up: 'Warning. Cannot connect to the mail server to verify your account information. Your server is not responding'.



Note: I have tried changing the Security Type but to no avail.

My Gmail account is working fine on my desktop.


Any ideas?

Cheers

Mettaman

 

[Case]

I have exactly the same problem. Gmail app works fine. I wanted to give the built in mail widget a try though but just couldn't get past this.

 

[Yenzehn]

Have you configured your gmail settings?

Enabling IMAP - Gmail Help

 

[Case]

Yep, that's done it. Really should search more before I just ask to be spoon-fed help. haha

Cheers

 

[Mettaman]

OK, I've done it.

IMAP was already enabled in Gmail.

On the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' settings page in Gmail I clicked on 'Configuration Instructions'. It then took me to a list of Mail clients and mobile devices.

I clicked on 'Android' and it gave me all the info I needed regarding the IMAP server name, etc.

Cheers