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Tuesday 29 December 2009

Check mails of Softbank mail account from your PC

If,
1. you dont have access to Wifi network
2. you want to check your softbank mail
3. you dont want to pay for the packets

you can simply go to www.mail2web.com give your softbank mail address(@i.softbank.jp) and the password. No registration is necessary.

If you are not comfortable providing this detail to the site, there is yet another way to access your mail.

Configure your PC`s mail client with the softbank`s address and password. I tried with my Mail application of Mac OS X and it worked without a glitch. I am sure that it will work with other mail clients like Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird etc. Softbank uses IMAP (not POP3) as the incoming mail server(imap.softbank.jp). Hence, you cannot add your softbank account to Gmail. Gmail only allows POP3 server accounts to be added.

Happy mailing!!!

2 comments:

VJ said...

Tried setting up the mail but always I get the error message that username or password is incorrect. I am giving the correct username which I verified in my softbank site. I think the password is the problem. How can I find/reset my email password?

I guess it is different from my softbank login password.

Do you have any idea what is wrong?

Unknown said...

I cant find my @i.softbank.jp mails. Ive been receiving alerts that i got mail bit i cant find where to look at my messages. Any ideas?