Additional Hints
As far as I know the Deutsche Telekom AG offers two kinds of T-Online email accounts: those, which are bundled into the official call&surf products for which you have to pay, and those, which are free. The features of these products differ with respect to the usage environment:
- email basic (free): You are not surfing via the Telekom net. However you've got a T-Online free email account. Then you can only use the email account by the browser based T-Online mail center.
- email basic: Your are surfing via the Telekom net established by the call&surf package you've bought. Then you can also use your email accout via any other mail client application but only as POP3 account.
- email premium: You've bought a call&surf package and you have activated the 'great' email package. Then you can use your email accout via any other mail client application, as pop3 or as imap account and indepently of the actually used internet access.
T-Online email premium can be activated by the Telekom customer center. In some call&surf packages it's already included, in other you have additionally to pay for it.
Can I use T-Mobile G2 Touch as mail client for my T-Online Mail Account?
The world is simple - in some respects. Connecting and synchronizing the mail client of a Linux desktop environment - like evolution - on the one hand and the T-Mobile G2 touch on ther other hand - with respect to a T-Online Mail account - is simple too - in some respects:
IMAP based mail synchronisation
- Firstly you have to activate the T-Online email (premium) package via the Telekom customer self center. (While changing an existing pop3 account into an imap account you must nevertheless re-configure your password.)
- Secondly you have to create and bind an imap account to your T-Online mail address in the Linux application evolution following the thunderbird instruction.
- Thirdly you have to create and bind an imap account to your T-Online mail address in the T-Mobile G2 touch (HTC) application mail: use menu>more>new account, select type imap, insert the same data as used in evolution (the port is 143).
From now on you see the same email stock in evolution, in the T-Online email center and in the app mail of your Android smartphone. Synchronisation is a built-in feature of imap. Beware: imap emails are stored in cloud. If you are working offline, you can't use them without any additional actions.
POP3 based mail synchronisation
- Firstly you have to create and bind a pop3 account to your T-Online mail address in the Linux application evolution following the thunderbird instruction. Additionally deactivate the option 'leave meassages on server' for turning the evolution account into your master account.
- Secondly you have to create and bind a pop3 account to your T-Online mail address in the T-Mobile G2 touch (HTC) application mail: use menu>more>new account, select type pop3, insert the same data as used in evolution.
From now on you can read all those emails in the Android app mail which you still don't have read by evolution or still don't deleted by the T-Online mail center.