Introducing Ovi Mail webmail
Mon, 2009-02-16 17:10Written by: Meenakshi Tripathy, Ovi Mail team
We launched Ovi Mail in November 2008 with the ambitious goal to provide “Email for everyone” (limited beta announcement, global beta announcement). Ovi Mail is a consumer email service provided by Nokia targeted towards Emerging Markets. This service was initially only accessible on Nokia device. Today, we are very excited to announce the Ovi Mail 1.0Beta release which includes webmail access.
Check out our webmail service at http://mail.ovi.com and be sure to register for your “preferred email address” on Ovi Mail today.
Ovi Mail webmail uses leading-edge web technology to deliver a simple and intuitive interface with advanced features like drag n’ drop and a preview inbox widget. You can choose between high and low bandwidth versions to ensure the best possible experience, and with our anti spam and virus protection all your messages stay safe. Ovi Mail supports IMAP access, so whether you are accessing your messages from the phone or the web, your inbox always stays the same.
Ovi Mail helps you stay connected with your family and friends through anytime and anywhere access on device and webmail. If you are a S60 user, you can now sign up for an Ovi Mail account on the web and access your email on your S60 device.
What are you waiting for? Try Ovi Mail now and be sure to send us your feedback.
The Ovi Mail team
Comments
when will crash the database??
@Tommi -- Pleased to hear you have faith in OviMail but what exactly IS the team's mission?
To create a webmail/mobile email facility that's an alternative to and better than GMail / Yahoo / Live? Or just to try to snap-up first-time Nokia users who don't realise there are other much better and more reliable services available?
Why would Nokia want to do that?
I ask again, where's the innovation?
@Marc -- MobileMe can retrieve email from any POP3 server. How do I manage that with OviMail?
@Marc -- I've been using GMail almost constantly for very nearly five years (two days after the first beta went live) and have NEVER ONCE lost data and only found the service unavailable once.
The valid criticism of the Contacts fiasco was not that you experienced a server crash (happens to us all) but that you'd not secured users' data with timely backups: an inexcusable display of incompetence.
If you don't want to use this, don't but I don't understand why you whine about that in here.
I opened an account for myself, feels quite all right, nothing special but everything is where it should be,
There is one advantage over most other e-mail services: with suffix @ovi.com you can make real short e-mail addresses. 2 chars shorter than yahoo, 3 shorter than google, 4 shorter than hotmail. If In marketing/financial language you could say that gmail is 67% longer, yahoo 100% longer, 130%. Save your fingers, time and keyboard, type short e-mail addresses ;)
I can't find any information on setting up IMAP, though it was mentioned in the blod. What are the servers? Ports, etc? Is it secure or plaintext? (if not secure, please reconsider)
To answer my own question about the IMAP servers and ports, I found it on an old beta labs blog comment:
Incoming Mail Server: imap.mail.ovi.com 993 (SSL)
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.mail.ovi.com 465 (SSL)
works :)
As far as "ovi" being shorter, on phone it's actually 666888444 and gmail is 462444555, exactly the same number of key presses :P
I've never given this a try, but I think it's about time I do.
Hi , nice crap nokia .
Why i must wait or use different email clients when it should be implemented in nokia mobile software? Nokia messanging is not working as should be.
Why nokia is creating some off application like this??
@ceedee
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/28/gmail-disaster-reports-of-mass-emai...
"Regretfully, a small number of our users
How do I get OviMail to 'collect' emails from my Gmail / Yahoo / Hotmail accounts?
What does Ovi Mail offer that GMail doesn't?
And doesn't every second-rate email provider under the sun advertise their service as "email for everyone"?
In short, where's the innovation gone?
It's a start, but nothing more. As soon as intergration of contacts, calendar and other Ovi services with Ovi mail are a fact, only then it will add more than any other free email account you can get from any provider.
I do hope intergration is a next step....?
To clarify, I don't think anyone in Nokia thinks you (= our beloved Beta Labs users, among the 0.1% of the most tech-savvy people on this planet) would be switching to Ovi Mail en masse. About "email for everyone", it primarily refers to emerging markets and other user groups who don't have currently email. As far as I've understood, there are about 4x more mobile phone users in this world compared with email users.
So please consider this before making direct comparisons to your favorite mail system. I think these guys are on a worthy mission.
Will it be free from server crashes on servers run by stupid dumf*ck peoples who have never heard the term backup (onsite & offsite). Seriously, first improve your existing sh*t then come up with new services. Talk about ignoring your subscriber.
Note!! For bug reports, improvement suggestions, reviews, and troubleshooting, please use the discussion forum instead.
I just tried to send feedback from "contact us" page, but it shows an error and I couldn't send message. Please fix it first :(
I've managed to get the OVI Mail in my E71 , a S60 phone read at
http://senseapplied.com/index.php/ovi-mail-on-s60/
Uhhhmm... I don
"everybody has their own email or access to Gmail, hotmail"
I think you'll find that there are millions of people who do not have an email address, or a computer, or regular access to a computer. Now with just a relatively inexpensive handset, and some access to WiFi or 3G, someone can have reasonably regular access to email.
Nonetheless, though the audience for Ovi email wasn't, I suspect, readers of Nokia Beta Labs forums, one should recall that probably millions use Apple's MobileMe email, even if many if not all of those people already had email accounts. Ovi is no different. There will undoubtedly be many users who will use Ovi mail just as part of the whole Ovi package (sync, gallery, maps ...), at a price (read "free") well under what people pay for MobileMe.
Regarding the Contacts on Ovi server crash (which lost some *addresses*), even Hotmail and Gmail have had serious outages and have lost user data. Even RIM service outages. Which providers have never had these?
Not excusing what happened, just putting it in perspective.
What setting pop3 or imap4 for email ovi nokia at mobile seting nokia..Why?
When we talk on shorter email I got one with 2 chars + SSL security encrypted message.
9y.com
Happy shorter email.
I got this:
ERR_AUTH_AC_DAMAGED
What's wrong with my ovi mail.
It is my primary email.
I need to check mail everyday, please fix it as soon as possible.
What is your mail better than gmail.com?
Free software