VP - if you click 'send/recv', it'll probably try the deafult account first (your ISP's, no doubt?).
Try the 'selective' - I had weeks of difficulty before I figured all this out for myself, then gave an 'Idiot's Guide' to the dealer who sold me the card; they subsequently sent copies to all their other dealers!
This was what I wrote:
VODAFONE MOBILE CONNECT CARD
1. SIM Card. Customers should ensure that the dealer who sells them a Vodafone Mobile Connect (VMC) card also provides them with a SIM card specifically for the VMC card together with an appropriate Vodafone contract. This SIM card must be GPRS-enabled; Vodafone advise that the GPRS registration process may take up to 48 hours. Note that the VMC card will have its own telephone number and IMEI.
2. Software. Installation of the VMC software is relatively straightforward. However, until the GPRS registration process has been achieved, customers will be unable to use the VMC card for anything other than SMS text message generation and retrieval. Despite the pictures in Vodafone’s promotional literature, even with the correct 1024 pixel setting selected, the ‘Vodafone dashboard’ will only fill about 80% of the computer screen width.
3. Internet. Once the GPRS registration process has been achieved, customers will be able to access the Internet by selecting ‘Connect’ on the Vodafone dashboard, followed by ‘Web’ once connection has been established. Indicated connectivity rates of 57+ Kbps are not uncommon.
4. E-mail. It is very probable that customers will be unable to use their normal landline e-mail account to send e-mails, despite the claims made in Vodafone’s promotional literature. Users of Outlook Express 6 can overcome this by setting up an alternative e-mail account. However, they will first need to know their normal landline e-mail username and password; these should be obtained from their ISP customer service department. To set up an alternative e-mail account, proceed as follows:
a. Double-click on the ‘Outlook Express’ icon to open the programme.
b. Select ‘Cancel’ on the ‘Dial-up Connection’ dialogue box.
c. Select ‘Tools’ from the toolbar, followed by ‘Options’. Then uncheck ‘Send and receive messages at start up’ and select ‘OK’.
d. Select ‘Tools’ followed by ‘Accounts’. Select the ‘Mail’ tab on the resulting ‘Internet Accounts’ dialogue box. Then select ‘Add’. 3 options will be presented, select ‘Mail’.
e. The next dialogue box will ask you by what name you wish to be known on this new account. For simplicity it is easiest to use the same name as that used on your normal landline connection. Enter it, then select ‘Next’.
f. You will be asked for the e-mail address to be used for the account. Again, for simplicity it is easiest to use the same e-mail address as for your normal e-mails. Enter it, then select ‘Next’.
g. The next dialogue box will ask you to enter the ingoing and outgoing e-mail server names. The incoming mail server can be the same as for your normal e-mails; e.g. for Virgin Net it should be set to mail.virgin.net . The outgoing mail server must be set to send.vodafone.net . Then select ‘Next’.
h. The next dialogue box, ‘Internet Mail Logon’, will ask for the Account name and Password provided by your Internet Service Provider. Enter these in the appropriate fields and select ‘Remember password’. Most users will not need to select ‘Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)’. Then select ‘Next’. The ‘Congratulations’ dialogue box will appear, select ‘Finish’.
i. The new account will now appear on the list of Internet Accounts. Highlight the new account and select ‘Properties’. The name of the account will appear; it is convenient to re-name it to remind you that this will be your VMC e-mail account, e.g. re-name it as ‘VMC’. Then select ‘Connection’.
j. Tick ‘Always connect to this account using:’ and then use the down arrow button to select ‘VMC.Internet Access’ followed by ‘OK’.
k. Decide which account to use as your default e-mail system, highlight it and select ‘Set as Default’. This will probably be your normal landline e-mail account.
l. To ensure that your normal landline e-mail account does not attempt to connect using the Vodafone Mobile Connect card, highlight your normal landline e-mail account name, then ‘Properties’, then ‘Connection’, then ‘Always connect to this account using:’ and then use the down arrow button to select the name of the landline service (e.g. Virgin.net) followed by ‘OK’.
5. Accounts. You will now have 2 independent e-mail accounts, your normal landline which you have ensured will always connect using your computer modem and a landline - and your VMC account which you have instructed always to connect using the VMC card.
6. Sending e-mails. To send an e-mail, do not click ‘Send/Recv’. Instead, use the adjacent down arrow button and decide whether to use the landline or VMC connection. Highlight the preferred option and click on it; the ‘Dial-up Connection’ dialogue box will appear; click ‘connect’ and the computer should then connect to the appropriate service.
7. Conclusion. The VMC card e-mail system is far from fully automatic and it will take considerably longer than Vodafone’s claimed 5 minutes to set up. However, once set up the VMC card is capable of fast and reliable e-mailing. Using plain text rather than rich text will save considerable time and cost!