Configuring Android to manage email
The following article explains how to setup your Android to download email from your nwanetworks.com account via POP.
Android software version 2.2(Froyo):
- From the Home Screen or Application Menu, click the Mail icon.
- If you DO NOT already have a POP, IMAP or Exchange email account setup on your phone, skip to step 5, other wise you should see a screen like the one below. From this screen, click the Menu Button on your phone to bring up additional setting options.
- Click More.
- Click New account.
- Select Other (POP3/IMAP).
- Choose Manual Setup.
- Fill out the Incoming settings screen like the example below with your specific credentials then click Next.
- Fill out the Outgoing server settings screen like the example below with your specific credentials then click Next.
- Choose what to call this email account on the following screen then click Finish Setup.
How do I configure Outlook 2007?
The following article explains how to download mail from your NWA Networks account using Microsoft Outlook 2007, click here for Outlook.
Outlook 2007
In Outlook 2007, from the Tools menu, select Account Settings.
On the E-mail tab, click New.
Select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP and click Next.
Check Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next.
Select Internet E-mail and click Next.
In the screen below, you need to enter the requested information:
Your Name: your name
Email Address: the email address the messages will be sent from
Account Type: POP3
Incoming Mail server: mail.domainname.xyz
Outgoing Mail server: mail.domainname.xyz
User Name: the full email address
Password: the password for the email address
Once the info is entered click "More Settings."
On the Outgoing Server tab, check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. 
Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server and click OK.
Once you click “Ok” you will be taken back to the previous screen. I suggest clicking on “Test Account Settings” to make sure everything is ok. After a successful completion of the test, click “Next” and then “Finish.” Repeat for each individual email account.
How do I configure Outlook?
The following article explains how to download mail from your NWA Networks account using Microsoft Outlook, click here for Outlook 2007.
Outlook
In Outlook, from the Tools menu, select Email Accounts.
Select Add a new email account and then click Next.
Select POP3 and then click Next.
Enter your email information:
Your Name: your name
Email Address: the email address the messages will be sent from
Incoming Mail server (POP3): mail.domainname.xyz
Outgoing Mail server (SMTP): mail.domainname.xyz
User Name: the email address used to log into the webmail interface
Password: the password for the email address
Click on More Settings and select the Outgoing Server Tab once you've entered all the information.
Check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
Click Ok. Click Next. Click Finish.
Virtual Printing
In my ongoing commitment to enhance your web experience and just make your life easier, here is a FREE tool that allows you to create a PDF from just about any Windows document. You can merge multiple documents into a single pdf, lock them to prevent changes, digitally sign your PDFs to ensure that you are the author and the file has not been modified, email them…the list goes on.
PDF stands for Portable Document Format.
One task that this tool is perfect for is creating a PDF receipt for online purchases. When you buy something online, you typically get sent to a page that serves as a receipt. You are told to print for your records. I hate paper piles and filing. So I simply “print” a PDF copy and store in a directory called “receipts.” No physical copy is made, yet I have all my receipts saved in a folder and if the need arises, I can refer to them, print them, email them etc. It’s a very green thing to do; I save paper, printing supplies, and space in my file drawer.
The tool is provided free of charge, no nag screens or advertising. The authors do ask for a donation on the page which is a nice thing to do, but not required. After install, you will be able to select PDFCreator from the select a printer pull down list. You can set it as the default, but if you ever need an actual printed copy you will need to select a physical printer.
If you want to check it out go here. There’s lots of help on their website, but if you need more, or just want to ask a question, leave a comment below or send me an email.
Web Browser Error Codes
Sometimes when trying to access a web page, an error code will appear. Have you ever wondered what that code meant? Here is a list of the most popular error codes and their description. The first thing you should do anytime you get an error code is to make sure that you have entered the correct web page addressed. Everyone has incorrectly spelled a company name or added too many periods.
401 – Authorization Required
This error code means that you must have special access to view this page. The developers may want only certain people to access this page. There are several ways to limit access to a web page, including password protection. You may get the “401 – Authorization Required” error message when you try to view a web page with limited access. (A web site may have a customized version of this error message, displaying “Access Denied” or “Unavailable.”)
403 – Forbidden
This standard error message is generated by web servers when you try to access a file that has not been correctly configured by whomever maintains it. (The file needs to be set with “read permissions” for all users.) What this code most likely means is that you can’t view the page because whomever maintains the site set it up incorrectly.
404 – Page not found
A 404 – Not Found error means that there was no web page with the name you specified at the web site. This could happen for a variety of reasons:
Make sure that the web address (URL) that you typed in exactly matches the address you were given. Check that the capitalization matches, that all words are spelled properly, and that all the punctuation, like dots (.) and slashes (/), are correct. Be sure you are using the forward slash (/) and not the backward slash (). (Remember, there are no spaces allowed in Web addresses, and a proper Web address will look like http://www.nwanetworks.com).
The page may have been renamed, moved, or deleted. Another possibility is that the person maintaining the web page may no longer have an account at that location.
500 – Page not available
If the server has been incorrectly set up or is experiencing technical problems, it will return this error. Again the first thing to do is make sure that you have typed in the address correctly.
501 – Not Implemented
This error is a direct result of problems in the web page’s HTML (HyperText Markup Language). It usually occurs with web pages that contain forms in which you type information and send it to a third party.
Configuring the i-Phone to manage email
How do I configure the iPhone for my email accounts?
For software version 2.x, click here
To configure your iPhone (software version 1.x) for email, please follow these steps:
- From the Dashboard, click Settings
- Under Settings, select Mail
- Select Add Account…
- Select Other as the type of account.
- Select POP
- Enter the requested information:
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Name: the name of the mail user
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Address: the email address of the mail user
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Description: a description of the mail user
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Host Name: enter the mail server mail.yourdomain.com (incoming mail server and external mail server)
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User Name: enter the full email address (incoming mail server and external mail server)
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Password: enter the users password (incoming mail server and external mail server)
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- Click Save
- If you see a message that says “Cannot Connect Using SSL”, click Yes when asked to setup the account without SSL.
- Click Save if prompted.
- Click Settings for the account you just created.
- Click Advanced
- Set Incoming Uses SSL and Outgoing Use SSL to OFF
- Under Incoming settings, click Authentication and select Password
- Under Outgoing settings, click Authentication and select Password
To configure your iPhone (software version 2.x) for email, please follow these steps:
- From the Dashboard, click Settings
- Under Settings, select Mail, Contacts, Calendars
- Select Add Account…
- Select Other as the type of account.
- Click Add Mail Account.
- Enter the requested information:
- Name: the name of the mail user
- Address: the email address of the mail user
- Password: enter the users password (incoming mail server and external mail server)
- Description: a description of the mail user
- Click Save
- Click POP and enter the Incoming Mail Server information:
- Host Name: enter the mail server address
- User Name: enter the full email address
- Password: enter the users password
- Scroll down and enter the Outgoing Mail Server information:
- Host Name: enter the mail server address
- User Name: enter the full email address
- Password: enter the users password
- Click Save.
- If you see a message that says “Cannot Connect Using SSL”, click Yes when asked to setup the account without SSL.
- The Advanced settings for the account will be displayed and do not need to be changed unless there are issues or you wish to change the defaults (how long messages stay on server, how often to delete messages in Deleted Items, etc).
