Many people who have Android phones wish to access their emails at any time while on the go. However, manually configuring an email account is often tricky. This article will give you a step by step guide on how to manually configure your email account on your Android phone.
The hardest part of configuring your email account manually is knowing what information you need to enter. Once you have the information, configuring the rest of your account is very easy! Therefore, before we begin, let’s figure out what information we need!
Email address: the email address for the account that you are trying to set up
Password: the password for the email address that you are setting up
Server name: mail.YourDomain.com (ex: mail.[servername].arvixe.com)
If mail.YourDomain.com doesn’t work, you will find this information in your webmail login under Settings then Email Accounts.
Incoming and Outgoing Server Ports: For the incoming server, this may be 143. For the outgoing server, this may be 25. If port 143 or 25 does not work, you can easily find this information in your webmail login under Settings then Email Accounts.
Now that we have the information ready, let’s set up the email account on your Android phone!
1) Go to Settings
2) Tap on Accounts
3) Then select Add Account
4) Choose Email
5) Enter the email address you are adding and the password
6) Uncheck the Automatically configure account box
7) Tap Next
8 ) Select General Settings
9) For Account name, enter the desired name for this account. For Real name, enter your real name. For Email address, enter your email address.
10) Select OK
11) Select Incoming Server
12) Tap where it says POP mail server and select IMAP mail server
13) Enter your connection details. For Server, enter your domain’s mail server. Most of the time, it is mail.YourDomain.com (ex: mail.[servername].arvixe.com). If mail.YourDomain.com doesn’t work, you will find this information in your webmail login under Settings then Email Accounts. For Username, enter your email address. For Password, enter the correct password for the email address.
14) Tap Advanced settings
15) Make sure Use secure connection and Verify Certificate are unchecked
16) For Port, enter 143. If port 143 does not work, you can easily find this information in your webmail login under Settings then Email Accounts.
17) Tap OK
18 ) Tap OK again
19) Select Outgoing Server
20) Enter your connection details. For SMTP server, enter your domain’s mail server. Most of the time, it is mail.YourDomain.com (ex: mail.[servername].arvixe.com). If mail.YourDomain.com doesn’t work, you will find this information in your webmail login under Settings then Email Accounts. For Username, enter your email address. For Password, enter the correct password for the email address.
21) Tap Advanced settings
22) Make sure Use secure connection and Verify Certificate are unchecked
23) For Port, enter 25. If port 25 does not work, you can easily find this information in your webmail login under Settings then Email Accounts (Linux Accounts only).
24) Tap OK
25) Tap OK
26) Tap OK one more time to finish configuring your email account.
You will now see your email account listed.
Note:
Only if you are using the server name as: mail.[servername].arvixe.com will you be able to send secure e-mails. This means that without that server name and just YOUR domain name, everything sent or received can be intercepted as clear text. This is due to the certificate naming conflict between your mail account and your domain. Because of the conflict, the phone would display an error and show a connection failure. However, you can chose to deselect the certificate validation in the settings and bypass this problem.
If you encounter an error, please double check that your information is entered properly, or that your server name and ports are correct. If you continue experiencing difficulties manually configuring your email account, feel free to leave a comment and ask for help!
This concludes how to manually configure your email account on your Android phone
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very helpful. thi got me up and runiing. thanks a bunch.
Thanks for the steps here–particularly the pictures are very helpful!
This process did not work with my Samsung Note 4. After entering the full emai address with domain name, and providing the password the give me access to your web email portal, I copse POP3 account, and change the incoming POP3 server setting to mail.Arvixe.com, security = none, and port = 143, but provide the following message “Unable to connect to email server to verify the account information. No response from server.” Also, I you tried to find the proper port numbers in the CPanel under email, but saw nothing relevant to settings there, nor in the web email tool.
Hi David,
Please make sure you are using your domain name or mail.[servername].arvixe.com. Using mail.arvixe.com will not allow you to connect to your account.