Here's one for you all.

Has any one successfully managed to get a Vodafone NZ mobile to download mail from an Xtra email account?
Specific example is a VF i-Mate SP5 which has a POP email client. Can do it for other non-Xtra accounts, but no luck with Xtra.

I've heard that Xtra/Telecom blocks requests from the Vodafone network. Anyone care to confirm or deny?

There are several ways around the issue, but I'd rather not go down those paths:
1) Forward email to Vodafone email address and get phone to download messages from VF email account
2) Move ISP's - not an option in this case
3) Set up Secure Remote Mail (using SSL) - use the smtpr@xtra.co.nz and pop3r@xtra.co.nz service - problem is that there does not appear to be any way of configuring the SSL port numbers required by Xtra (995 for POP3/SSL and 465 for SMTP/SSL)