Okay ya'll, I about pulled on all my hair out trying to get this set up and looking through quite a few different threads to do it. So I figured I would take the directions from the various threads and put them in one place for those follicly challenged who don't have much hair to lose.
These first instructions are from a post Singbar did on 9-6-07
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Instructions:
Before this will work, there are some steps that need to be performed from your PC.
On your PC
1) Go to the Sprint website and log in to your account using the Sign In window at the left. If you have not logged into your account online before, you will first need to register using the link provided.
2) On the account overview screen that has just appeared, find the section labeled My Online Tools on the right hand side of the window and click Sprint PCS Mail.
3) On the left hand side of the new window, find and click Settings and Preferences.
4) Along the top of this screen, find and click Setup.
5) Change your password, and remember it or write it down.
*Neat thing you can actually set this up so that when people receive replies from your sprintpcs account it can say whatever you want.. like Joeblow@bellsouth.net
6) On the left hand side of the screen, find and click My Personal Information near the bottom.
7) Scroll to the bottom of the page and find the Passwords section and click the Modify link for your Power Vision Username.
8) DO NOT actually change your Power Vision Username. If you do so, it will take several hours to propagate through Sprint's system. Just make a note of what it is (write it down), then click Cancel at the bottom.
On to the Q. If you are setting up a brand new POP3 account, the following instructions will be clear when you get to the outgoing mail server section. If you have already set up a POP3 account on the Q and need to change the outgoing mail server, open that account on your Q and click Menu -> Options -> Account Options, and click on the account you want to modify. Click Next three times to get to where the outgoing mail server settings are.
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Where it got confusing for me was when I went to set it up on my Q, so here is my take on that end. On the Q Go to setup new Account 1st page should read Email Setup Enter your name email address --- this is your email address for your Roadrunner account. hit the right softkey next User name --- is again your email address for your Roadrunner account Password is your password you use to access your Roadrunner account Scroll down page and check the save password box hit the right softkey next Server type is POP3 Account name is POP3 hit the right softkey next Incoming Server is pop-server.sc.rr.com DO NOT check the SSL connection box Outgoing Servier is smtp.sprintpcs.com Check box that says Outgoing server requires authentication Scroll down page and click on Outgoing Server Settings Outgoing Server---check box saying Use different user name for outgoing server User name is the User name that you wrote down from your Sprint account per Singbar's instructions. Without the @sprintpcs.com. Password is your Sprint password Scroll down and check the save password box hit left softkey--done hit right softkey next Choose how you want your messages downloaded Choose how you want your messages checked hit right softkey next Then click Finish your setup is complete!! I feel like I left something out though. I know one of the problems that I had was somewhere in all that I had to use my username for getting onto Sprint which is my mobile phone number but going though the steps again I didn't see that option. So when setting it up for the 1st time beware that when dealing with your Sprint account if it asks for your username to get onto Sprint and it's your number too use that. Hope this saves someone else searching and going from one thread to another trying to get this set up. But it does work, I am now able to check my Roadrunner messages from my Q and send messages as well!!
By the way Tar Heels do Rule!!!
