Send and Receive Email on Your Phone

Send and receive email on your phone using your regular email account.
To send and receive email via SMS and MMS, you need to use the wireless operator's special email address, which is tied to your phone number. While this is convenient, it does not address the needs of most email users, especially business users, who need to manage email in multiple existing accounts while on the road. To access regular email on a Nokia phone, you have to configure the phone with your email server and account information. In this hack, I will teach you how to do that. But first, let's go over some basic concepts regarding the Internet email infrastructure.

To access email on your phone, you also need to subscribe to General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) or Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 1x data services. On some networks, the MMS access point provides access to email as well.