Flex Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Hi all, currently have my domain and email hosting with 123 reg. I'm out today and just tried to use webmail on my phone and its aweful! Does anyone know if I can move my email hosting to someone else that has a more mobile friendly email? Cheers, Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aliensurfer Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Do they have options to set access it via POP3? I've done that on my phone with my hotmail and personal domain name e-mail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebized Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 gmail works fine on the Galaxy S3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 It is pop3 on my laptop. Already got gmail, just want to see if I can move it to another provider etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-350 Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Is the domain you have hosted the same domain as the email that you're talking about? If yes, you will have to move your domain to a new server... I have never used 123 hosting, only purchased domains from them so cant comment on their servers. You want to make sure the host us a UK based server, a lot of companys like 1&1 will use german servers, and GoDaddy use dutch and US servers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Use IMAP, not POP3. 99% sure 123Reg support that, just get the details and pop them onto your phone (which phone?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy78 Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 http://www.123-reg.co.uk/support/answers/Email/Email-Client-and-Mobile-Device-Setup/setting-up-your-email-address-to-an-email-client-1110/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-350 Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I dont know why you would need to use IMAP settings though, POP3 settings should be fine, what phone is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 You don't need to use IMAP over POP, it's just a much more efficient solution if you've got more than one machine you access your mail on. Been there, done that, had to completely change my folder structure to sort it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Cheers Boys, HTC sensational Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoogyRev Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 You should be able to enable Active Sync and then use a "native" exchange type email client on your phone I used to be with 123reg. . . then moved to GearHosts. never had a problem since I changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarmac@TarmacSportz Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 123reg suck !! I have constant issues with them, although weirdly not so much on my iPhone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) No need to use webmail browser client, just set Mobile Mail app with IMAP settings. POP3 is for 1985, not 2013! POP3, Post Office Protocol POP, or Post Office Protocol, is a way of retrieving email information that dates back to a very different internet than we use today. Computers only had limited, low bandwidth access to remote computers, so engineers created POP in an effort to create a dead simple way to download copies of emails for offline reading, then remove those mails from the remote server. The first version of POP was created in 1984, with the POP2 revision created in early 1985. POP3 is the current version of this particular style of email protocol, and still remains one of the most popular. Since POP3 creates local copies of emails and deletes the originals from the server, the emails are tied to that specific machine, and cannot be accessed via any webmail or any separate client on other computers. At least, not without doing a lot of email forwarding or porting around mailbox files. While POP3 is based on an older model of offline email, there’s no reason to call it obsolete technology, as it does have its uses. POP4 has been proposed, and may be developed one day, although there’s not been much progress in several years. IMAP, Internet Message Access Protocol IMAP was created in 1986, but seems to suit the modern day world of omnipresent, always-on internet connectivity quite well. The idea was keep users from having to be tied to a single email client, giving them the ability to read their emails as if they were “in the cloud.†Compared to POP3, IMAP allows users to log into many different email clients or webmail interfaces and view the same emails, because the emails are kept on remote email servers until the user deletes them. In a world where we now check our email on web interfaces, email clients, and on mobile phones, IMAP has become extremely popular. It isn’t without its problems, though. Because IMAP stores emails on a remote mail server, you’ll have a limited mailbox size depending on the settings provided by the email service. If you have huge numbers of emails you want to keep, you could run into problems sending and receiving mail when your box is full. Some users sidestep this problem by making local archived copies of emails using their email client, and then deleting them from the remote server. Edited March 14, 2013 by octet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Which is what I said, just wordier! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 80's was my favourite era! Cheers dudes xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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