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| ====== Set Up Your Android Phone for E-Mail ====== | ====== Set Up Your Android Phone for E-Mail ====== | ||
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| + | FIXME Needs updating for newer Android | ||
| Follow these steps to configure the ' | Follow these steps to configure the ' | ||
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| ===== Setup a New Account ===== | ===== Setup a New Account ===== | ||
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| + | ==== Inbound (Receive) ==== | ||
| - On your phone, navigate to the Home screen, then open the ' | - On your phone, navigate to the Home screen, then open the ' | ||
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| - Choose IMAP (or POP, if you don't have IMAP access to your account). | - Choose IMAP (or POP, if you don't have IMAP access to your account). | ||
| - On the Incoming Server screen, edit the IMAP server field to be your actual server name. | - On the Incoming Server screen, edit the IMAP server field to be your actual server name. | ||
| - | - For Security type, select the encryption settings that your server supports. | + | - For Security type, select the encryption settings that your server supports. |
| ^Encryption ^Try ^ | ^Encryption ^Try ^ | ||
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| * Select Accept all certificates as your server probably uses a self-signed certificate. | * Select Accept all certificates as your server probably uses a self-signed certificate. | ||
| - | :!: Most mail servers that I manage use: | + | :!: Most mail servers that I manage use these secure inbound settings: |
| * SSL on port 993 | * SSL on port 993 | ||
| * Accept all certificates | * Accept all certificates | ||
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| + | ==== Outbound (Send) ==== | ||
| - On the Outgoing server screen, edit the SMTP server setting to your actual SMTP server name. Sometimes it's the same as the incoming server. | - On the Outgoing server screen, edit the SMTP server setting to your actual SMTP server name. Sometimes it's the same as the incoming server. | ||
| - | - For Security type, select the encryption settings that your server supports. Try these (send/ | + | - For Security type, select the encryption settings that your server supports. Try these settings if you don't actually know what your server supports: |
| - | ^Encryption ^Try ^ | + | ^Encryption ^Try |
| - | |TLS |on port 25 | + | |TLS |on port 25 (SMTP) |
| - | | |or port 587 | | + | | |on port 587 (Submission) |
| - | |SSL |on port 465 | | + | |SSL |on port 465 (SMTP over SSL) | |
| * Select Accept all certificates if your server uses a self-signed certificate | * Select Accept all certificates if your server uses a self-signed certificate | ||
| - | :!: Most mail servers that I manage use: | + | :!: Most mail servers that I manage use these secure outbound settings: |
| - | SSL on port 465 | + | |
| - | Accept all certificates | + | * SSL on port 465 |
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| - On the Account options screen, you can change the check frequency, notification and whether this account is the default for sending new mail. The defaults are probably OK. | - On the Account options screen, you can change the check frequency, notification and whether this account is the default for sending new mail. The defaults are probably OK. | ||
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