Email problems on my PDA

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Kissner

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Hey everyone-newbie to the forum and i got a few questions. First-I have a Dell Axim X50V PDA. I want to set up my Yahoo email account on it. When i go to set up the account it asks for incoming mail server, outgoing mail server and domain. Also for username and password. It configures the incoming and outgoing mail servers by itself so that's taken care of. Does anyone know the domain for yahoo mail? I believe its mail.yahoo.com but it will not let me receive emails. When i click for it to receive emails it just pops up a login box that asks for username, password and domain. It keeps doin this over and over again. Anyone know how to get this to work?
 
I still can't get it to work. Ill type everything is says as i'm going thru setup-maybe u can tell me what is wrong. I go into Outlook Express. Go to Accounts, then to new account. It asks for email address-type it in and hit next. It then automatically configues email settings. Says it's completed so i hit next and it takes me to a menu called User information. Asks for your name, user name, password and asks if you would like the password saved. All info is already entered except the password and whether i want my password saved. Type in my password and click save. Hit next and it takes me to Account information. Account type is a POP3 and name is Yahoo, it's already entered in. Hit next and it takes me to server info. Incoming mail server is pop.mail.yahoo.com and outgoing mail is smtp.mail.yahoo.com- they are already entered in. There is also domain, but it is blank. The yahoo link u posted doesn't have the domain, but mail.yahoo.com makes the most sense. However, i don't understand why it would automatically configure the incoming and outgoing mail servers but not the domain. I've tried leaving it blank and also tried typing in mail.yahoo.com-both have the same results tho. Ill leave it blank this time tho. There is an options tab at the bottom of this page that gives me the option to connect and check for messages every x minutes. The next options page says Only display messages from the last x days, Require SSL Connection and Outgoing mail requires authentication. Underneath outgoing mail requires authentication is a box that says Use separate settings. When this is clicked an options menu opens titled Outoing Server Settings. It asks for username, password, domain and a box that can be checked to Require SSL for outgoing mail. Back to the Original options menu. The 3rd page of the options menu allows me to chose whether i want message headers only or full copy of messages. When i close out of the options menu it just says finish and the account is made. When send and receive is pressed it says connecting.... for along time and then says logging on and is followed by a menu that sayd user name, password, domain and save password. And then with the option of either next or cancel. Hitting next leads to the same thing, connecting...., logging on.... and then this same window again. Hitting cancel makes a window pop up that says "Messages cannot be downloaded to your mobile device. Make sure you are connected and that your e-mail account settings are correct. Then, try to download messages again.
Sorry for the lengthy explanation but i wanted to be thorough
 
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