On Tuesday night I mentioned the new iPod touch upgrade which sees 5 new apps being added: Mail, Stocks, Weather, Maps and Notes, all for $20. I felt no real urgency to buy the package but 12 hours later I did so as I felt the Mail app would be particularly useful. I have one of my IMAP e-mail accounts on the iPod touch now, aswell as IMAP GMail.
I synced the iPod touch with the iMac to get my mail account across and for some reason it carried over all of my POP accounts even when the boxes were unticked or even blanked out in iTunes. I followed the instructions here which resolved one problem but still the e-mail inboxes were on the iPod touch…with no way of deleting them via Settings > Mail. The only account that was listed there was my Google Mail 
So, I did a restore of my iPod. When that completed it showed 1.1.3 as being the latest update (which was installed) but no mention of the apps I’d bought yesterday. I looked in my account settings but nothing was turning up. The only way I could find of getting these back was to locate the receipt e-mail from iTunes I received after the purchase and click on ‘Report a Problem’. It opened a page in iTunes where I then clicked ‘Done’ and it brought back my apps. But how totally not obvious was that? There needs to be an easier way, boys and girls of Apple.
18 Jan 08
12:00 am
I read somewhere someone restored an ipod touch who’d bought the apps then just went to the page or something and they appeared back on the touch. Odd really. I also had some email settings issues on the touch well only that my email account disappeared in that box in itunes but I got it working some how, after I restart I think. I enjoy mail on the touch but I think I should open a Gmail account ( I have one that I use to use but it’s a rubbish address) for imap unless the yahoo account I have works. I might try that in a minute
18 Jan 08
1:58 am
Here’s what is really weird: The apps are included in the 160-some-odd MB update for every iPod touch user. When you plunk down your dough, a 9 KB file is downloaded to “unlock” them. Weird, huh?
I’ve had no problems with my e-mail. but I only use IMAP Gmail, anyway.
08 Mar 08
2:40 pm
Hi can anyone help me, a complete IT beginner. I have an Ipod touch and set up a google mail account to be able to send mail from it. Was successful in sending emails once or twice but now when I try to send an email from it, it says I cannot send mail and to ‘check the account settings for the outoing server “smtp.gmail.com”.’
Can anyone translate for me?? help. Dee
08 Mar 08
4:43 pm
Hi Dee. The only thing I can suggest is going through this page to check all your settings are correct > https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77702
You can also access the settings by going into google mail on your computer > settings and then clicking on the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes