Note: Several android phones now use Gmail as the default app to add email accounts to your phone’s device. For the Gmail App tutorial, click here.
The following guide will show you how to set up your email address as an IMAP-account on your Android device.
We’ve used a Sony device, but you should be able to follow along using others as well.
Go to Settings and click Accounts:
Press Add account
Press Email
Now you’ll be asked to configure the basic settings. Firstly enter your email address and press Next. Now enter your password and press Next again:
Choose IMAP account when asked
Now you’ll be asked to configure the incoming server settings.
- User name: Enter your email address. We’ve used mail@surftown.email in our example.
- Password: The email address’ password
- IMAP-server: (This is supplied separately along with your email password)
- Security type: SSL
- Port: 993
- IMAP path prefix: INBOX
Press Next
Now you’ll be asked to configure the outgoing server settings.
- SMTP server: (This is supplied separately along with your email password)
- Security type: SSL
- Port: Enter 465
- Require sign-in: Checked
- User name: Enter your email address. We’ve used mail@surftown.email in our example
- Password: The email address’ password
Press Next
Now you’ll be asked to configure some general account settings.
Most of these you can change to your liking, but we recommend to check the Automatically (Push) option.
Now you’ll be asked to name the account, and choose which name should be displayed as the sender. These settings have no impact on the functionality, so you can change these to your liking.
Press Finish setup
And that’s it! You should now be able to send and receive emails on your Android device.
