POP3 E-mail : Receive notification but cannot view email

slug · #1 (**permalink**) 02-18-2007, 08:17 PM

I get the notification but when I click view nothing happens. It used to work then suddenly stopped. Even if I manually go to messaging and click send/receive it logs in, checks for mail but just says â€œFinishedâ€ on the status bar.

Any suggestions?

**Pibe38** · #2 (**permalink**) 02-19-2007, 01:17 AM

Uhmm is this with GMail by any chance? Have you soft reset? Deleting and re-setting up the POP3 account?

slug · #3 (**permalink**) 02-19-2007, 11:40 AM

Yes. It is gmail I did a soft reset and also deleted and re-created account.

**Pibe38** · #4 (**permalink**) 02-19-2007, 01:31 PM

GMail is tricky, there are some things that need to be done like setting up ports for the POP and SMTP servers and selecting 'download headers only' up to 999kb.

I've never set up GMail myself, but found this on the internet...

http://www.nik.com.au/archives/2005/...any-pocket-pc/

slug · #5 (**permalink**) 02-19-2007, 10:15 PM

that's pretty much what I did to setup the account the first 5-10 times. Thanks for the info. i may just go ahead and setup one of those push e-mail accts.

Upstate · #6 (**permalink**) 02-20-2007, 08:11 PM

I have the same problem, except it only happens once in awhile. When I click view it's blank, but the next time I get an email it's fine. I also have Gmail.

kevin michaels · #7 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007, 02:24 PM

Hi, try logging into your gmail account on a desktop computer and click on "Settings." Click on the Forwarding and POP tab and select 'Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on.' Remember to save changes.

Kevin

santos · #8 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 12:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kevin michaels

Hi, try logging into your gmail account on a desktop computer and click on "Settings." Click on the Forwarding and POP tab and select 'Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on.' Remember to save changes.

Kevin

Are you really from Palm?

flash13 · #9 (**permalink**) 03-02-2007, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Upstate

I have the same problem, except it only happens once in awhile. When I click view it's blank, but the next time I get an email it's fine. I also have Gmail.

I was having the same problem, the solution can be found at:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=47948

The short version of what it says: Enter "recent:" before your username. So if you're John.Q.Public@gmail.com then use "recent:John.Q.Public" in the username field. That will force it to keep 30 days on your device. So far this has worked fine for me.

slug · #10 (**permalink**) 03-02-2007, 03:08 PM

Thanks! great info.