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How to setup email on an Android device

by | Jan 27, 2014

Create a new email account

Enter your full “Email Address”
Enter the password for your “Email Address”

Tap “Next”

Choose the type of email account you will be using.

POP3: POP3 will download the emails from the server and store them on your phone.
IMAP: IMAP will store the emails on the server and show a cached copy on your phone.
Exchange: Exchange is not supported as it requires a Microsoft Exchange server

Incoming Server Settings

Username: Please enter your full email address
Password: The password for your email address.

POP3 server with SSL webmail.globalmcs.net Port 995 (Recommended)
POP3 server mail.globalmcs.net Port 110

or

IMAP server with SSL webmail.globalmcs.net Port 993 (Recommended)
IMAP server mail.globalmcs.net Port 143

Note
 Using “SSL (Accept all certificates) will be more compatible.

Tap Next.

Outgoing Server Settings

SMTP server with SSL webmail.globalmcs.net Port 465 (Recommended)
SMTP server mail.globalmcs.net Port 25

 

Note Using “SSL (Accept all certificates) will be more compatible.

Require sign-in Check this as you will need to authenticate with the SMTP server.

Username: Please enter your full email address
Password: The password for your email address.

Tap Next.

Account Options

Email Checking Frequency: Set how often you would like your device to check for new emails.

Note The more often you check your email the more drain it will cause on your battery.
Send email from thise account by default Check this option if this will be your default email address

Notify me when email arrives: Leave this checked if you would like to be notified of new email messages.

Tap Next.

Name the account

If you would like you can name the email account, this can be helpful if you have multiple accounts on the one device.

Enter the name you would like to be shown on all outgoing emails that you send from the device.

Tap Done.

How to setup email on an Android device was last modified: July 9th, 2024 by Global MCS, LLC

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