Setting up Freeola Email on a Nokia N8

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Welcome to the Freeola Internet customer support pages. This guide is designed to help with setting up a Freeola email address on a Nokia N8 device. For more internet help topics please visit our main Support Page.

Before Continuing

Please visit your MyFreeola account and make a note of the following information before continuing, you'll need to know this for later on in the guide:

1 - What protocol your e-mail address is set up to use (IMAP or POP3).

2 - What service is assigned to your e-mail address (EmailPro, Free Email or One Address).

3 - Your e-mail address password.

You can find this information by clicking Email Settings in the left-hand navigation in MyFreeola, then My Email Addresses. You should then be able to click Settings & Features button next to the relevant e-mail address to view all required email settings.

  1. From the home page or home screen open the Main Menu and choose Applications.

  2. Select the Mail application. If you are asked No mailbox defined. Define now? select Yes. If you are not asked this, choose Options and then New Mailbox (or just New).

  3. Choose Start and then Other.

    Nokia N8 Mail Providers

  4. To integrate your Freeola email address, enter your full email address in the E-mail Address field and the password for that email account within the Password field.

  5. Click the OK option and then choose POP/IMAP.

  6. Select the Username field and enter your full email address and press OK.
    Select the Password field and enter your email account password and press OK.
    Under Mailbox Type choose POP or IMAP, the correct server type is displayed in your MyFreeola account.

  7. Select the Incoming Mail Server field and enterĀ yourdomainname.freeolamail.net where 'yourdomainname' is your domain name with any dots ( . ) replaced with hyphens ( - ). For example, if your domain name was freeola.co.uk, the incoming mail server would be freeola-co-uk.freeolamail.net.

  8. Incoming Mail Security should be set to SSL. While this is not required, it is strongly recommended.

  9. Select the Incoming Port Number field and enter 995 for a POP email address (110 is SSL was not selected) and 993 for an IMAP email address (143 without SSL) and press OK.

  10. Select the Outgoing Mail Server field and enter smtp.freeolamail.net and press OK.
    Please Note: This server is only accessible if you are subscribed to our EmailPro or One Address services or are using a Freeola Internet connection.

  11. Outgoing Mail Security should be set to SSL. While this is not required, it is strongly recommended.

  12. Select the Outgoing Port Number field and enter 465 (587 if SSL was not selected in the previous step) and press OK. Press Save.

  13. You may be offered a Terms of Service page, select Accept to continue.

  14. Next select Your Email Address, and choose Options, and then Settings.

  15. Select Your Email Address, and choose Mailbox Settings.

  16. Select the Mailbox Name field, and enter your email address, and then press OK.
    Select the My Name field, and enter your name, and then press OK.
    Select Advanced Mailbox Sett..

  17. Select Access Point in Use, User Defined and then Internet.
    Select Security and choose Off.
    Press Back.

  18. Select Outgoing Mail Settings.

  19. Select User Authentication, and choose Password.
    Select the Username field and then enter your full e-mail address.
    Select the Password field and then enter enter your email account password and press OK.
    Select Access Point in Use, User Defined and then Internet.
    Select Security and choose Off.
    Then return to the start screen.

  20. Switch off the Nokia N8 and restart it in order to activate the settings.

  21. Your Nokia N8 should now be set-up to send/receive e-mails from your Freeola e-mail address.


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