[gorilla]

OK, folks, I have a problem.

I've been using my E65 for the last day after upgrading the firmware to the latest generic release. The phone has generally performed very well. Now, this was essentially a brand new phone i.e. new firmware and a formatted memory card. So everything was starting afresh. So a lot of my apps are on my N95 and I couldn't be bothered to download and configure consilient (http://pushreg.consilient.com/) (my regular email client)
so I decided to try the inbuilt messaging client. Now, in a previous post I bemoaned the client as being crap (it deleted itself and generally was unreliable). Today however, I found it to be excellent at retrieving mail, but nothing I do enables me to send an email. It will connect, then sit in the outbox saying 'queued til xpm'. I'm pretty positive my settings are correct (Edit: but I was wrong, I had the wrong port selected for outgoing email, d'oh!). I've only tried sending via '3'. Could this be a network problem?

Why oh why is the inbuilt email so bad?

Imap settings for gmail on S60 can be found here (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78887&topic=12761)!

[gorilla]

So imap? My first time using it. Any benefit to it? I'm pretty sure that imap and the E65 are going to get along really well. This is definitely a better email phone than the N95.

[gorilla]

I'm going to clarify my post above.

As an experiment I put my sim into the N95 and setup imap on the inbuilt email client.
I have also installed 3's mobile mail. Both work for sending and receiving mail and I assume it's as good as push.

Well, I have now suffered two crashes this morning. I was not aware that anything was wrong, but the phone has just frozen. In the first instance it had been in that state for an hour. (I got a text after reboot which suggested that was how long my phone had been down.)

Is this because I'm running both email clients? Surely the N95 can handle that?

[Hands0n]

Is this because I'm running both email clients? Surely the N95 can handle that?

Unlikely :D

It'll do a lot of things, but not always a the same time. Memory leakage is the killer for this baby. You need an app that you can see how much memory is being used - that will give you a clue as to what is going awry.

[gorilla]

I've just decided to run with mobile mail. It seems very reliable, doesn't kill the battery, and formats the email better than the inbuilt client. Now if only it was html...

[Hands0n]

Google's Mobile Mail is a darlin of an app. It works very well and has a tiny memory footprint. Luverly Jubberly :D