Click Accounts from the sidebar to open the Accounts page. From this page you can set up preferences for your device email account, as well as add up to three external email (POP or IMAP) accounts:
Primary Account
If you have one or more external accounts set up (as in the illustration above), then you specify your "primary" account from this page. This will be the account that you send email from by default (you can always manually change the From field in a new email message).
In the example above, the device email is the primary account because the option Send mail from your device address by default is selected. To change your primary account to an external account, simply select the Send mail from this address by default option for that account, then click Save.
Device Account
For your device account, you can edit the following information by clicking Edit Device Account.
- From address - the email address that you want to appear in the From field on email sent through this account
- From Name - your name as you want it to appear one mail sent through this account
- Reply-to name - the name displayed for the reply-to address
- Reply-to address - the address to which replies will be sent
- Signature - limit to 320 characters or less; four lines max recommended
External Accounts
The Accounts screen is where you set up external email accounts from which email can be retrieved. You can specify up to three accounts.
Add an Account
- Click Accounts in the Email sidebar. This opens the Accounts page.
- Click New Account in the lower-right corner of the page. The New Account page opens.
- From the Protocol drop-down menu, select the protocol used by your email server. Keep the selection on Auto-detect if you don't know which one to pick. If you select one of the email services listed, then the Mail Server and Port fields will auto-populate.
- Type your email server name in the Mail Server field, if it did not auto-populate after you selected the Protocol. If you do not know the server name, you can obtain this information from the email service provider.
- Fill in the email server Port; leave as 110 unless you know it is different.
- Type your username in the field provided.
- Type your email password.
- Select the folder you want mail from this server to be delivered to; Inbox is selected by default. To create a new folder, type its name in the text field.
- If you want the email to be removed from the mail server as it's collected and sent to your device, check the Remove mail from server as it is collected box. By default, email retrieved from a mail server will remain on the server.
- If you want mail collected from this account, leave the Collect email from this account box checked. If you don't want mail collected, click the check box to clear it.
- When the form is complete, click More Options.
- Complete the signature and name information:
- From address - The email address that want to appear in the From field on messages sent through this account.
- From Name - Your name as you want it to appear on messages sent through this account.
- Reply-to address - The address to which replies will be sent.
- Reply-to name - The name displayed for the reply-to address.
- Signature - Limit to 256 characters or less; four lines max recommended.
- Copy Outgoing Messages option - All messages you send from this account can be CC'd or BCC'd to an email address you specify.
- Click Save when the page is complete. You're returned to the Accounts page, with the new account listed.
- Before your account is completely set up, the email account will be verified. If there is a problem with the account information you provided, an error message will appear at the top of the Accounts page. Click Edit This Account to try to fix the error or to delete the account.
Edit an Email Account
- Click Accounts in the Email sidebar. This opens the Accounts page.
- Click Edit This Account opposite the account you want to edit. Your account information appears in an editable form. Note: If you have the new device Email application that allows you to sign in directly to external email "branded" accounts and display these accounts in tabs, for tabbed accounts, you cannot edit sign-in information from the Desktop Interface.
- Make edits as you wish, then click Save.
Remove an Email Account
- Click Accounts in the Email sidebar. This opens the Accounts page.
- Click Edit This Account opposite the account you want to discard. Your account information appears in an editable form.
- Click Discard.
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