Set up your phone for web-based email

You can send and retrieve email from a web-based email account, such as Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. Follow these instructions to set up your phone for web-based email. Remember, you need to set up your phone for internet.

Select an alternative email configuration:
- Set up your phone for PO3 email
- Set up your phone for Telstra Mail
- Set up your phone for Exchange email

Nokia Lumia 920
Nokia Lumia 920
  • 1
    Find "email+accounts"
    • Slide your finger left on the display.
    • Press Settings.
    • Press email+accounts.
  • 2
    Create new email account
    • Press add an account.
    • Press the required provider.
  • 3
    Enter email address
    • Press the field below Email address and key in your email address (e.g. name@provider.com).
  • 4
    Enter password
    • Press the field below Password and key in the password for your email account.
  • 5
    Activate email account
    • Press next.
    • Press sign in.
    • Wait while the email account is activated.
  • 6
    Edit email account settings
    • Press the email account you've just set up.
  • 7
    Enter email account name
    • Press the field below Account name and key in a name for the email account.
  • 8
    Select setting for retrieving new email
    • Press the field below Download new content.
    • Press the required period or manually.
  • 9
    Select period for retrieving email
    • Press the field below Download email from.
    • Press the required period or any time.
  • 10
    Select data types
    • Press Email, Contacts and Calendar to turn synchronisation of each data type on or off.
    • When the box next to the menu item is ticked (V), synchronisation for the required data type is turned on.
  • 11
    Save and exit
    • Press the confirm icon.
    • Press the Home key to return to standby mode.