I scoured Qtel's FAQs more deeply and think I may have found the answer, but I'm not sure.
According to Qtel, "Mobinet exclusively offers access to secure/VPN and Intranet sites" - in other words their Mobile Internet service (Freedom) does not support secure connections. Since the POP3 accounts I've tried to get to work require secure connections (eg. Gmail) I suspect one may need to subscribe to Mobinet for this.
If someone can disprove this theory (ie. you can use your handset to retrieve e-mails from POP3 servers and you are not Mobinet a subscriber) please raise your hand!
I scoured Qtel's FAQs more deeply and think I may have found the answer, but I'm not sure.
According to Qtel, "Mobinet exclusively offers access to secure/VPN and Intranet sites" - in other words their Mobile Internet service (Freedom) does not support secure connections. Since the POP3 accounts I've tried to get to work require secure connections (eg. Gmail) I suspect one may need to subscribe to Mobinet for this.
If someone can disprove this theory (ie. you can use your handset to retrieve e-mails from POP3 servers and you are not Mobinet a subscriber) please raise your hand!
Cheers