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Configuring my Android 4 for email

We recommend using IMAP instead of POP for accessing your incoming email. Pop configurations will often delete mail from the server, making it unavailable to other devices or computers you would use to access your email. With IMAP, you can access your mail using your computer and smartphone, and keep mail syncronized between devices.

Important note: In the description below, we use you@yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com as your email address and domain name. You need to substitute of course your real email address and domain name.

About Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): In the instructions below, we are not enabling SSL. If you wish to connect to the incoming IMAP and outgoing SMTP server using encryption, then leave these enabled. There will not be an SSL certificate on the server to match mail.yourdomain.com or imap.yourdomain.com, so your mail program will warn you that you are connecting without a certificate. Confirm the exception when this happens.

1. Select Mail from the Main HTC Menu.

   

2. Select "Other (POP3/ IMAP)" from the "New Account" Menu.

   

3. Enter your full email address (you@yourdomain.com) and your password into the required fields and then press "Manual Setup"

   

4. Select "IMAP" from the "Protocol" Menu and enter your full email address (you@yourdomain.com) in the "Email Address" field and the full email address (you@yourdomain.com) into the "Username" field. Your password should already be filled in for you.

   

5. Scroll down the page and enter "mail.yourdomain.com" or your server name (ahsX.R4L.com) where X is a number into the "POP Server" field and change the "Incoming Port" to 143. This is specifying the port for IMAP. Tap "Next" to verify your settings.

   

6. Ensure that your username and password have been automatically entered correctly on the "Outgoing Server Settings" menu, and enter smtp.yourdomain.com or your server name (ahsX.R4L.com) where X is a number in the "SMTP server" field. Under Server Port, entry 587. Click Next to verify your settings.

   

7. Confirm a name to refer to the account by in "Account Name" field and your name in the "Your Name" field and click "Finish Setup".

   

8. It will then take you through to your newly setup mailbox!