The Bold Explorer
LOGICMAIL
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CAUTION:
The Bold supports TLS version 1.0,
which is three revisions behind the
current standard in 2019. As a result,
LogicMail should be considered
insecure, and should not be used to
access any email account containing
sensitive information, especially if
it involves passwords or financial
transactions. The LogicMail
configuration information is below,
but you probably shouldn't use it. The
Bold remains my everyday phone, but
I've deleted LogicMail and I don't log
into any websites.
SETUP INFORMATION:
Here are the settings to get LogicMail
working with Outlook.com email, with
TLS:
IMAP server: outlook.office365.com
Use secure connection: TLS
Port: 143
SMTP server: smtp-mail.outlook.com
Use secure connection: TLS
Port: 587
Authentication: Login
Similar settings did not work for
Gmail. However, you can set up a
workaround as follows:
1. Sign up for an outlook.com (or
hotmail, live.com, etc.) account. In
subsequent steps you will forward your
Gmail to this account, and Logicmail
will retrieve incoming emails from it.
Use the same identity information as
you use with your Gmail account.
2. Set your Gmail account to forward
all mail to the outlook.com account
set up in step 1.
Log in to your Gmail account.
Click the gear icon on the top right
of the screen, choose settings, select
Forwarding and POP/IMAP, choose "Add a
forwarding address" and enter the
address of the outlook.com account
created in step 1.
While you're on that screen, you
should enable IMAP access so that you
can access the account with
third-party clients like Logicmail
(You're only going to use the SMTP
server, but you probably need IMAP
access turned on to do that).
3. In LogicMail, press the BlackBerry
button to enter “configuration.” Hover
over the accounts section, press the
BlackBerry button, and choose the new
account wizard.
Enter your identity information on the
first screen. Use the email address
that you created in step 1 and choose
IMAP. Press “Next.”
Enter the IMAP settings for the
outlook.com account created in step 1.
Press “Next.
Enter the SMTP settings for your Gmail
account (currently: smtp.gmail.com |
TLS | Port 587 | Login). Press “Next.”
Note: you may need to generate an
"Application Specific Password" in
order for Logicmail to log into your
Gmail smtp server. Here are some
instructions:
HTML Sign in using App Passwords
Make any changes you would like to
make on Logicmail's Miscellaneous
screen. “Refresh frequency” determines
how often LogicMail will poll the
server for email. If you set it to
"Never," it should maintain an active
IMAP connection (with "push" style
behaviour), but it tends to disconnect
when you switch wifi/data connections,
so you may want to set a polling
interval instead, which should
re-initiate the connection. With
respect to the other options on the
Miscellaneous screen, consider whether
you want the app to start
automatically on boot, and whether you
want it to refresh on startup. Press
“Next.”
Make any changes you need to make on
the Connection Settings page (probably
none, as the defaults seem to work).
Press “Next.”
Press “Test Configuration.” If your
information has been entered
correctly, both tests should be
successful. If one fails, go back and
check over your settings.
I've been using this workaround for
various accounts for a few years. No
one will ever know that their emails
were forwarded to the outlook.com
account. Your emails will go out from
the Gmail SMTP server using the Gmail
address, and thus replies to those
emails always go to your Gmail
account, and from there they will be
forwarded to the outlook.com account
created in step 1. It works perfectly,
and by doing this, you can keep your
existing address(es).
Tip: if your cell provider has an
email-to-sms gateway, you can set your
email to forward to your address at
that gateway, with the result that you
will receive a text message whenever
an email arrives. This has a couple of
benefits: new email notifications will
be delivered more reliably to your
device; and you can exit Logicmail and
leave it closed when you're not
responding to emails, which will
provide some battery savings. On the
downside, if your plan does not
include mms messages, doing this may
trigger mms charges.