Sprint discontinuing email service, 3Gstore provides Gmail Migration Tipsheet

Without any official explanation,  Sprint will be discontinuing their @sprintpcs.com email service on December 31st, 2008. If you currently use their email service, you will need to migrate to another email service. There are several popular free email providers such as GMail , Yahoo Mail , and Hotmail (also known as Windows Live mail). Since Google's Gmail service is the only one to provide free POP3 & IMAP access, 3Gstore has chosen to provide a tipsheet to their customers that will help customers in migrating to the GMail service.

3Gstore's 18-page tipsheet provides its customers with step-by-step instructions & screenshots on how to enable POP3 or IMAP for your GMail account, as well as configuring POP3/IMAP & SMTP servers for the following email clients:

Apple Mail

Windows Mail (Windows Vista) 

Outlook Express (Windows XP)

Outlook 2007

Thunderbird 

If you purchased your Sprint device & service from 3Gstore.com . You can request the 3Gstore tipsheet by sending an email to support *AT* 3Gstore.com. 

Related Links:

Sprint's Official Announcement

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