Set Up Your Phone For Email

Basic use

Set up your phone for email

You can set up your phone to send and receive email messages from your email accounts. Remember, you need to set up your phone for internet.

Find “Email”

Press Apps.
Press Email.
Enter email address

Key in your email address.
If an email account has been created already, do the following instead:
Press MORE.
Press Settings.
Press Add account.
Key in your email address.
Enter password

Press Password and key in the password for your email account.
Press NEXT.
If the display tells you that your email account has been set up, follow the instructions on the display to select more settings and finish the setup.
Select server type

Press POP3 ACCOUNT.
Enter username

Press the field below “User name” and key in the username for your email account.
Enter incoming server

Press the field below “POP3 server” and key in the name of your email provider’s incoming server.
Turn off encryption of incoming email messages

Press the drop down list below “Security type”.
Press None.
Enter incoming port

Press the field below “Port” and key in 110
Turn deletion of email messages on server on or off

Press the drop down list below “Delete email from server”.
Press Never or When deleted from Inbox.
Press NEXT.
Enter outgoing server

Press the field below “SMTP server” and key in mail.yourdomain.com
Turn off encryption of outgoing email messages

Press the drop down list below “Security type”.
Press None.
Enter outgoing port

Press the field below “Port” and key in 26
Turn off SMTP authentication

Press Require sign-in until the display tells you that the function is turned off.
Press NEXT.
Select settings for retrieval of new email messages

Press the drop down list below “Sync schedule”.
Press Manual or the required period.
Turn email message notification on or off

Press Notify me when email arrives to turn the function on or off.
Press NEXT.
Enter email account name

Key in a name for your email account.
Enter sender name

Press the field below “Your name (for outgoing emails)” and key in the required sender name.
Finish setup

Press DONE.
Wait while your phone retrieves new email messages.
Return to the home screen

Press the Home key to return to the home screen.

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