# VersaMail: Palm Settings to get Home Email

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/versamail-palm-settings-to-get-home-email/396874>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 21, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/versamail-palm-settings-to-get-home-email/396874 "2007-03-21T15:29:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/versamail-palm-settings-to-get-home-email/396874/1 "2007-03-21T15:29:19Z")

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I have a Palm T/X and I sync it at home (maybe once a month) and at work (daily). The web pages for AVANTGO update perfectly, but darn it, I never get my home account email.

(When I synch from my home PC, I get my mail, but hey, if I’m at my home PC, I can just read it off the screen)

My home email is through Comcast and the auto-mail setup from the disk leaves these settings:

Incoming Mail Server: [mail.comcast.net](http://mail.comcast.net)

Outgoing Mail Server: [smtp.comcast.net](http://smtp.comcast.net)

Ive double checked & changed the screenname & password to match my home account without effect.

Q: Whats the SNAFU? What am I doing wrong & what can I do to fix it?

PS- Buying a different make/model handheld is not an option.

PPS- It doesn’t uptdate from WIFI either, and indicates that the DNS settings are not correct. Also, when I test my connections off my work PCvia Palm Desktop, I get the error “SSL connections are not supported.”

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/versamail-palm-settings-to-get-home-email/396874/2 "2007-03-21T15:35:41Z")

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Edit: SSL is a secure connection. I’ve disabled that & now get “The specified server is invalid or is not responding.  
Cannot form a connection to the server.”

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/versamail-palm-settings-to-get-home-email/396874/3 "2007-03-21T15:40:02Z")

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How are you trying to connect the Palm device to the internet? That seems like the problem.

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/versamail-palm-settings-to-get-home-email/396874/4 "2007-03-21T16:37:30Z")

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]  
How are you trying to connect the Palm device to the internet? That seems like the problem.  
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I have it attached by hotsynch cable currently. Most of the WIFIs by me are all locked down/secure. Still, I’ve been in coffee shops with free wifi and gotten the same errors even when I could surf the web.