Iphone help

[TheSanityAnnex]

I can't seem to sync my contacts from outlook. I can see them in outlook, and when I sync them, nothing shows up. When I was setting up outlook I just typed some crap in when it asked for something like "vpop3"? Not sure what that was.............and if that is whats messing it up, how do I find out what my incoming and outcoming "vpop" is?

[ShoogarBear]

iPhone?

:flipoff

:lol

[ShoogarBear]

VPOP3 is probably some type of POP3 server for your Outlook e-mail. Check your email settings you currently have configured in Outlook and see what the incoming and outgoing servers are set to.

[TheSanityAnnex]

VPOP3 is probably some type of POP3 server for your Outlook e-mail. Check your email settings you currently have configured in Outlook and see what the incoming and outgoing servers are set to.thanks.

Wasn't planning on gettin this phone but I just broke my phone last night and don't have insurance anymore. They wouldn't upgrade me and said the most they could do was give me 75 bucks off any phone. Didn't want to early terminate and needed a new Ipod anyways. Iphone only set me back 225.

[TheSanityAnnex]

VPOP3 is probably some type of POP3 server for your Outlook e-mail. Check your email settings you currently have configured in Outlook and see what the incoming and outgoing servers are set to.I can't seem to find where the incoming and outgoing server information would be. Any ideas?

[ShoogarBear]

Outlook menu bar -> Tools -> E-mail accounts -> View or change existing e-mail accounts.

One of the tabs after that should give you server information.

I assume you're using Outlook, and not Outlook Express.

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September 10, 2007

Fun, Tours and a $3,000 Bill for Hardly Using an iPhone

By KATIE HAFNER (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/katie_hafner/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9 — When Neil Dingman recently went on a European vacation, he took his iPhone (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/iphone/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) with him with no intention of using it much. In fact, for the 14 days he was there, he used it only a handful of times and had expected to see just a small increase in his next bill for roaming charges.

Instead, he was charged $852.31.

As it turned out, the cellphone carried by Mr. Dingman, a mortgage consultant in Minneapolis, made calls on a European data network several times each hour to check for e-mail messages. Because he didn’t deactivate the feature that automatically checks for new e-mail messages, during Mr. Dingman’s trip through Italy, Croatia and Malta, the phone went to retrieve e-mail more than 500 times.

Other iPhone users have felt the sting of high roaming charges with their iPhone, too. Some, like Mr. Dingman, are unaware that they need to disable the e-mail feature; others are billed erroneously; still others misunderstand the explanation of charges they are given by AT&T (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/at_and_t/index.html?inline=nyt-org) customer service representatives. Many of them are complaining to the company or on blogs.

The iPhone is no different from any other phone, said Todd Smith, an AT&T spokesman, with the exception of the BlackBerry, whose users can opt for a flat monthly rate when traveling. Any AT&T customer planning to travel outside the United States should contact AT&T to inquire about roaming plans, he said.

Dave Stolte did that before taking his iPhone with him on a two-week trip to Ireland and England in July. He signed up for a roaming plan, but he said the customer service representative’s explanation of the charges was unclear. His bill was $3,000.

When he was offered a $100 credit, Mr. Stolte said he felt insulted, and he sent letters to the chief executives of AT&T and Apple (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/apple_computer_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org). The story of his bill quickly spread around the Internet. Before long, he was given a full credit.

“I can’t image AT&T would expect all their customers to be technicians and say, ‘O.K., if I go to use Google (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org) maps, how many kilobytes am I transferring?’ ” asked Mr. Stolte, a Web designer who lives in Temecula, Calif.

(I have ATT cellphone, and I told ATT to disable the data service as soon as saw how many KB it took to do simple stuff and how much KB cost, and that's domestic!)

In July, Aaron Oxley took his iPhone with him to London, Dubai and Bangkok. Mr. Oxley said in an e-mail message that he was aware that there would be international roaming data charges, so he always made sure he was in an area with free Wi-Fi when he used his iPhone to access the Internet. But when Mr. Oxley’s AT&T bill arrived, the data charges totaled $300.

When Mr. Oxley called AT&T, he was told that even though he was using Wi-Fi, there was still a data transfer charge.

Indeed, according to Mr. Smith, the AT&T representative, iPhone owners are not charged for Wi-Fi connections. Mr. Oxley eventually received a full refund for the $300 roaming data charge.

Mr. Dingman said it didn’t occur to him to disable the e-mail feature. AT&T eventually reversed the charges, but only after Mr. Dingman signed up for a $24.99-a-month global data plan.

AT&T is not automatically crediting customers for such charges. Mr. Smith said that each complaint is being evaluated case by case.

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ATT will make many $Ms off iPhone data service.

[ShoogarBear]

:lol

To be fair, before I'd ever go overseas I'd have to check with Sprint to see what happens if I tried to use my Treo.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Outlook menu bar -> Tools -> E-mail accounts -> View or change existing e-mail accounts.

One of the tabs after that should give you server information.

I assume you're using Outlook, and not Outlook Express.Found it, but both boxes "pop3 incoming" and "smtp outgoing" are blank. How do I figure these out?

[ShoogarBear]

Do you use Outlook to read e-mail?

If no, then you need to go to the program you do use and find the appropriate server info.

If yes, then Outlook has to know the location of the mail server where your account is. I don't know how it could be getting e-mail with those fields blank.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Thanks for the help.

[TheSanityAnnex]

I use aol for my mail. Where do I find the server information?

[ducks]

AOL fucking SUCKS

[ducks]

Type Aol Pop 3 Server
Aol Smtp Server

NOT SURE IF AOL HAS A POP 3 SERVER

[TheSanityAnnex]

I've now got my contacts loaded in outlook, yahoo address book, and windows address book. When I sync it with the iphone, only the contacts who have an email address show up. What the fuck. I'm getting pissed. I don't want to enter all the email addresses if that's what makes it work.

[TheSanityAnnex]

what a pain in the ass, i had to delete the email entry from each contact in outlook, then import those to yahoo address, then import that to the iphone. It worked, but was quite a pain.

[ducks]

do you like computers?
if you were not using outlook something that bils gates not make things are more simple

[ShoogarBear]

I would love to see an operating system written by ducks. Could you imagine those error messages?

[ducks]

they would be none

[2Blonde]

TSA, here is an article about how to do it. If that doesn't work then just google "what is the incoming and outgoing servers for AOL?". That's what I did and came up with a ton of links.


Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server Settings
for Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, GMail, AOL and more

http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/mail-settings.html

[ducks]

Aol Used To Not Have A Pop 3 Server
They Might Now
They Still Suck Majorly

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