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Set up your phone for email

You can set up your phone to send and receive email from your email accounts, such as Gmail or email accounts using your own email provider. Remember, you need to set up your phone for internet.

Select an alternative email configuration:
- Set up your phone for Telstra Mail
- Set up your phone for Exchange email

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  • 1
    Find "E-mail"
    • Press the menu icon.
    • Press E-mail.
  • 2
    Create new email account
    • Press Other.
    • If an email account has been created already, do the following instead:Press the menu icon. Press Settings. Press Add account. Press Other.
  • 3
    Enter email address
    • Key in your email address.
  • 4
    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.
  • 5
    Select server type
    • Press POP3.
    • Press NEXT.
  • 6
    Enter incoming server
    • Key in the name of your email provider's incoming server.
  • 7
    Turn off encryption of incoming email
    • Press the drop down list below "Security type".
    • Press Off.
  • 8
    Enter incoming port
    • Press the field below "Port number" and key in 110
  • 9
    Enter username
    • Press the field below "Username" and key in the username for your email account.
    • Press NEXT.
  • 10
    Enter outgoing server
    • Key in the name of your email provider's outgoing server.
  • 11
    Turn off encryption of outgoing email
    • Press the drop down list below "Security type".
    • Press Off.
  • 12
    Enter outgoing port
    • Press the field below "Port number" and key in 25
  • 13
    Turn SMTP authentication on or off
    • Press the box next to "Require sign-in" to turn the function on or off.
    • If you turn on SMTP authentication:
    • Press the field below "Username" and key in your username for your email provider's outgoing server.
    • Press the field below "Password" and key in your password for your email provider's outgoing server.
    • Press NEXT.
  • 14
    Enter email account name
    • Key in a name for your email account.
  • 15
    Enter sender name
    • Press the field below "Your name" and key in the required sender name.
    • Press DONE.
  • 16
    Select setting for retrieval of new email
    • Press the menu icon.
    • Press Settings.
    • Press the name of the email account you've just set up.
    • Press Sync schedule.
    • Press Peak time sync.
    • Press Manual or the required period.
    • Press the required days below "Peak days".
    • Press the fields below "Peak time" and follow the instructions on the display to set the required times.
    • Press Off-peak time sync.
    • Press Manual or the required period.
    • Press SAVE.
  • 17
    Return to the home screen
    • Press the home icon to return to the home screen.