Now I got a Siemens S55 as a replacement for my Nokia with the broken Bluetooth. The phone can also fetch emails from a POP3 mailbox. Great. Except it doesn't work. I've already tried all the included providers, played around with all possible custom settings, tried the data from T-Mobile and T-Zones, searched and configured and fiddled. The phone alternates depending on the setting between "No response from network" and "POP3 port of the server cannot be reached". Makes perfect sense. Why do these little bastards have to have such a pathetic user interface and an even more pathetic manual? Setting up my Clie to fetch email over GPRS was trivial. Setting up my notebook accordingly was of course also easy. This stupid phone of course not. The smallest piece of junk in the bunch and causes the most trouble.
If anyone thinks as twisted as the phone manufacturers or has already figured out how to set up the S55 so it retrieves from a normal POP3 server via GPRS, please get in touch.
Update - got it working. This damned phone is not capable of telling you that the GPRS connection is not active and therefore doesn't use GPRS but something analog instead, which for reasons beyond my comprehension but completely irrelevant to me doesn't work.