Find below the instruction on setting up your GMail or Google Apps account on your native client.

• Enable IMAP in your Gmail settings
• Select ‘Messaging’ > ‘Options’ > ‘Settings’ > ‘E-mail’ > ‘Mailboxes.’
• If you have never set up email on your phone before, select ‘Yes’ to define a new mailbox. If you aready have other mailboxes, select ‘Options’ and then ‘New mailbox.’
• Select ‘Start’ to begin the setup wizard
• Select ‘IMAP4′ and then ‘Next.’
• Enter your full email address (including ‘@gmail.com’) as the email address and select ‘Next.’ Google Apps users, enter your full address in the format ‘username@your_domain.com.’
• Enter ‘imap.gmail.com’ as the incoming mail server and select ‘Next.’
• Enter ‘smtp.gmail.com’ as the outgoing mail server and select ‘Next.’
• Select the appropriate access point and then ‘Next.’
• Enter a descriptive name for the email account mailbox name
• Once your mailbox is set up, select it from the email mailbox settings screen
• Select ‘Connection settings’ > ‘Incoming e-mail.’
• Enter your address (including ‘@gmail.com’ or ‘@your_domain.com’) and password
• Select ‘SSL/TLS’ for your security (ports) and define your port as ’993.’
• Select ‘Back.’
• Select ‘Outgoing e-mail.’
• Enter your email address (including ‘@gmail.com’ or ‘@your_domain.com’) and password
• Select ‘StartTLS’ for your security (ports) and define your port as ’587.’
• Select ‘Back’ and change any other settings according to your preferences

Thats it! You’re done

Reason: Its low on memory, and very sweet & simple.

Here are a couple of tips and tricks to make your experience with GTalk more interesting

• To make your text BOLD, place a * before and after the text. Example: *This will be bold*
• To make your text Italic, place a _ before and after the text. Example: _This will be Italic_
• For line break, hit Shift+Enter
• Pressing F9 will open Gmail to send an email to the person you’re talking to
• Pressing F11 will make a call to the person you’re talking to
• To switch between multiple chat windows, press Ctrl+Tab
• You can show your homepage simply by entering it in your away message. It will automatically turn to a link.

Miscellaneous information about your favorite IM, GTalk .

• A message can be 32767 characters long
• You can change your Gtalk chat name in your Account Page

Do you know of any other tips and tricks? I’d love to hear from you.

You might be interested in: Login to Multiple Gtalk accounts

Google Apps is a service from Google for using custom domain names with several Google products. This post will only talk about the EMail functionality. Once you register with Google Apps, you can use your account just like you would use a regular GMail account, which means you get all the standard features of GMail. You get 6GB+ of storage, less spam and of course mobile access.

First things first. Sign up for for Google Apps

Note:
1. You should have access to upload files to your domain. Google will ask you to upload a file for verification purposes.
2. You should be authorized to alter the MX Entry (you should find this in your CPanel), so that the emails are handled by GMail and not by your regular host.

On the sign up page, follow the below steps.

Step 1 – Enter your domain name
Step 2 – Self explanatory. Enter all the reqd fields.
Step 3 – Create your Admin account

Once you create your Admin account, you are taken to your Dashboard. You then see a link to ‘Verify your Domain Ownership’. This is the process where Google asks you to upload a file to your server, to authenticate you.

Once authenticated, you then need to activate your email (again link on your dashboard).

To activate your email, you need to change your MX Entry to

ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. – Gives this a Priority 10
You dont need to worry about the other entries mentioned. Changing only this will work.

Voila !! You’re done – You can now use your domain email with GMail interface.

Doesn’t work for you?? – Not an issue – Contact me or leave a comment below and I’ll try and help.