smil3y

so here's the deal. Yesterday I went to the sprint store because I finally got fed up with the "network search" dropped call error on my T600. They gave me a new one, no trouble at all, and once I had restored all my programs and preferences I started looking for differences. I noticed the new mail application. And I thought, "This would be great to use with my new POP3 gmail access," so I started searching the forums.

I found what you found: nobody has been able to make the native palmOne Mail program send via the gmail smtp server (at least not via Sprint). downloading works if you follow the setup instructions- you don't even need to worry about what ports to use- but sprint won't forward smtp connections, so any attempt to connect to smtp.gmail.com as per gmail's setup instructions fails with the error "Unable to authenticate with smtp user - 5.7.0 Authentication Required."

I've got a kludged together solution that works as far as I can tell. It involves logging into sprintpcs.com and changing your settings for outgoing mail. here's what i did.

On the treo:
(Name Tab)
Account name: gmail
Full Name: <my name>
Email Address: first.last@gmail.com
User Name: first.last@gmail.com
Password: <gmail password>

(Server Tab)
Incoming (POP3) Server:
pop.gmail.com
Outgoing (SMTP) Server:
smtp.sprintpcs.com

(Advanced Tab)
x Leave Mail on Server
x SSL required for POP3
0 SSL required for SMTP
For outgoing mail server: User Name: <sprintusername, but NOT "@sprintpcs.com">
Password: <sprintpcs webmail password>

Now, on the SprintPCS website:

go My Online Tools -> PCSMail -> Settings and Preferences.

Personalization:
Recipients of email bla bla blah will see:
<First Last>
Recipients of your email will reply to:
first.last@gmail.com

and click "done."

follow Google's instructions for setting up POP3 in your gmail account.


What does all this get me? Now I receive any mail sent to my gmail account on my Treo as well as in gmail, and I can respond to that mail on my treo, and to the recipient it looks like I'm replying from within gmail. However, I think I'm actually replying from sprintPCS and Sprint is mangling the mail headers, as shown below: the return-path: is my sprintpcs.com email address, but the From: is my gmail address. malachi.org is the 3rd mailserver i'm using as a test recipient.


Return-Path: <xxxxx@sprintpcs.com>
Received: from dedicated59-bos.wh.sprintip.net (smtp.sprintpcs.com
[63.167.114.16])
by malachi.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAIJuDhh024257
for <xxxx@malachi.org>; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:56:13 -0800
Received: from dedicated171-bos
(boded0171snunx.wh.sprintip.net [10.228.166.31]) by
dedicated59-bos.wh.sprintip.net
(iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004))
with ESMTP id <0I7E006UB4M2DC@dedicated59-bos.wh.sprintip.net> for
xxxx@malachi.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:54:03 +0000 (GMT)
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:54:01 +0000 (GMT)
From: first last <first.last@gmail.com>
Subject: from sprint webpage to malachiarts
To: xxxx@malachi.org
Message-id: <7041111.1100807642994.JavaMail.root@dedicated171-bos>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on
fish.malachi.org