If you use a POP3 email account such as a web based email or email provided by your Internet Service Provider, you can pick up messages to and send them from your phone. You might want to do this on a regular basis or just sometimes, but the procedure involved in setting up an account on the phone is the same.

If you find you have difficulty configuring all the necessary settings on your phone, you can visit Nokia’s online setup service at https://nokiags.wdsglobal.com/advanced?siteLanguageId=118. This provides standardised settings for many of Nokias phones and can automatically configure your phone via text message. You will need to supply some details about your Internet Service Provider and network operator.

Set up your mailbox
Tap the Nokia Menu Key and choose Message. Scroll down to Mailbox and click. You will be told ‘no mailbox defined. Define now?’ Choose Yes.

A wizard starts which walks you through the process. First choose Start with the left selection key. Choose your mailbox type using the scroll key and clicking to ensure the correct one is selected with a dot to the left of its name. If you have webmail or an email address from your Internet service provider, choose POP3. Click Next.

Type in your email address. Use the star key to pull up a symbols list so you can choose the ‘@’ symbol and the 1 key for the dot. Choose Next.

Enter your incoming mail server then choose Next and your outgoing mail server then choose Next. Now choose your ‘access point’. The choices will depend on which operator you are using at the time and you may need to ask your operator for the right information. You can get the phone to ask you every time if that might be useful. Make your selection then choose Next.

Now give this mailbox a name. Make it meaningful, something like ‘Yahoo email’ if your email provider is Yahoo, for example. When this has been entered choose Finish and you will be told ‘Mailbox setup complete. Settings can be viewed and edited in e-mail settings’. Click OK.

Personalise the settings
Now you need to tell the Nokia N73 how to behave when it is picking up and creating email.

When viewing the messaging main screen scroll to the mailbox you just set up and click it to open it. Now choose Options then E-mail settings. From here there are several sets of settings to make.

- Choose User settings.

• In the space under My name type your own name. This will be used to identify you instead of your email address when the recipient device supports that.
• Under Send Messages click the scroll key to choose between sending messages immediately they are created or at the next manual connection
• Under Send copy to self click the scroll key to choose between copying yourself in to all emails sent or not
• Under Include Signature click the scroll key to choose whether you want to include a pre-defined signature on all emails. If you choose yes, you are asked to define the signature now.
• Under New email alerts click the scroll key to choose whether you want the N73 to tell you when new email has arrived. This is useful if you have chosen to retrieve emails automatically – see ‘automatic retrieval’ below.

- Choose Retrieval settings.

• This is where you tell the phone how much of each email to retrieve. You might want to retrieve less if you think you will end up spending a lot on connection time. The choices are; to retrieve headers only, to set a size limit on downloads, or to retrieve messages and their attachments.

- Choose Automatic Retrieval.

• If you need to get your email regularly then you can set up the phone to pick up messages at regular intervals. Choose Disabled if you want to pick up email manually

- Choose Connection settings.

• Here you can change any of the basic email settings such as incoming and outgoing email servers and can give the phone your login password

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With mobile email at your fingertips it is possible to check on messages that are sent to you during an ordinary working day, and to send emails to people if you need to do this.

The Nokia N73 includes readers for PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint so you can read attachments too. Note, though, that at 2.4 diagonal inches and 240 x 320 pixels the screen is not as easy to use as computer screen.

Create an email
To create an email from the main screen press the left Selection key if the shortcut showing on screen is Messaging. If it is not, press the Nokia Menu key to the left of the 1 and 2 keys and choose Messag.

Use the scroll key to go down to the mailbox you have set up and click to open it. Use the left Selection key to choose Options then choose Create message, then E-mail.

A new screen opens up. In the To field type the email address you are sending to. If the person is in your contact book already then choose Options then Add recipient then select the person from your contact database.

Scroll down and write the subject of your email, then scroll down further and write the content.

Now choose Options and then Send.

Immediate send and sending later
If you have set email up to send immediately the send will happen straight away. If you have set it up to happen at the next manual connection the message will go when you make a connection. In this case you need to choose Options then Connect to send messages and then Options and Disconnect when you are finished.

Retrieving email
To pick up email go into your mailbox as described above then choose Options then Retrieve e-mail then choose All to collect everything in your mailbox. Choose Options and Disconnect when you are finished.

You can use settings to receive new email automatically, but this may increase data traffic to your N73 and could be more expensive than manually retrieving email.

Deletion
When you choose to delete emails you can opt to delete them from the phone only or the server as well. Deleting from the phone only will mean you can pick messages up again from your main computer later on, deleting from the server will mean they are gone forever and you can’t pick them up from your main computer later.

Set up a bookmark
To save the page you are looking at as a bookmark choose Options with the left selection key and pick Save as bookmark from the menu list. Use the name automatically given or type your own, then pick OK with the left selection key.

The page will now appear listed when you open the Web browser. The N73 creates bookmarks automatically as you move around. Choose the Auto bookmarks folder to see these.

Move around within a Web page
When you are at a Web page use the scroll key to move around. It moves an on-screen cursor. When this is over a link you want, press it to select.

If you move the cursor quickly a Mini Map appears of the page you are on with a section highlighted with a red rectangle. Stop scrolling and the section inside the red rectangle fills the screen.

To turn this feature on or off when using the browser choose Options with the left selection key, then scroll down to Settings and click it. Now scroll down to where it says Mini map and click to turn this either on or off.

Set some preferences
Customise how the browser works by choosing Options with the left selection key, then scrolling down to Settings and clicking it. Make the settings that suit you best then choose Back. You can also change the font size and zoom preferences by choosing Options then Zooming options.

You might not need to use the Web from your phone constantly, but it pays to know how to make the most of its browser just the same. Those occasions when you need to check on a snippet of information to make your day flow well, from a train time to a cinema location, can be a breeze rather than a trauma if your Web skills are honed.

Go to a Web site
To open the Web browser tap the Nokia Menu Key to the left of the 1 and 4 keys. Use the Scroll Key to highlight Applications and then press to open this folder. Choose Web and the browser will open. If this is the first time you’ve used the N73 it’ll ask you to define a home page. Select No with the right selection key.

Type a Web site address starting with ‘www.’ Remember the 1 key gives you the dot between each element of the address. Press the left selection key to Go to the Web site.