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Introduction

The first time you open Email, you are prompted to set up an email account. After that, you can configure Email to send and receive email from additional accounts. The accounts that you configure are displayed in the Accounts screen.

The Email setup wizard helps you set up your account for many popular email systems, including those based on IMAP and POP3, so you can read and work with the same email as you do on a computer in Thunderbird, Mac Mail, in a web browser, or with another email application. If your service provider requires additional settings, or if your service provider is unknown to Email, you can enter the necessary details manually, though you will typically need to contact your email service provider to determine the right settings for your account.

Add an email account

1. From the home screen, touch Apps   
2. Touch Settings 
3. Touch Accounts & Sync > Add account > Email
   

3. Touch Next. Or, if you need to enter email account settings the wizard can’t configure for you, touch Manual setup

4. Enter any other information requested by the type of account you’re adding and touch Done
5. Enter a name for the account and touch Done

1. From the home screen, touch Apps   
2. Touch Settings 
3. Touch Accounts & Sync     
4. Touch  the account you want to delete
5. Touch Remove account
   

1. From the home screen, touch Apps   
2. Touch Settings 
3. Touch Accounts & Sync  
4. Touch  the account whose settings you want to change
5. Touch Account settings
   

• Account name  The name of the account as it appears in the Accounts and Folders screens.
• Your name  Your name as it appears to others when they receive email from you.
• Signature  Opens a dialog where you can enter a signature to append to the messages you send from this account.
• Amount to synchronize  For Exchange ActiveSync accounts, opens a dialog where you can set how many days or weeks of email to store on the phone.
• Inbox check frequency  Opens a dialog where you can set how often Email checks for new email sent to this account.
• Default account  Use this account’s outgoing email server for the email you compose and send when you are not currently viewing or working with email from a specific account.
• Email notifications  Set whether you want to receive notifications when you receive new email sent to this account.
• Select ringtone  Select a ringtone to sound when you receive an email notification for this account.  
• Incoming settings  Opens a screen where you can configure settings for how you receive email for this account.
• Outgoing settings  Opens a screen where you can configure settings for how you send email from this account. (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync accounts do not have separate outgoing server settings.)
• Sync contacts  For accounts that can sync contacts, check to sync contacts from this account to your phone.
• Sync calendar  For accounts that can sync calendars, check to sync calendar events from this account to your phone.

• Your account’s incoming settings are different, depending on the kind of email service  for the account: Exchange ActiveSync, IMAP, or POP3.

You can  set up an a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account, so you can read and work with the same email as you do on a computer using Microsoft Outlook.

Email supports username and password authentication for Exchange ActiveSync accounts, and your IT administrator may set additional security policies for the account (contact your IT administrator for more information).

Click here to access the corporate email simulator.

Notes:

Exchange account (Corporate Sync) is for Microsoft® Exchange server work email accounts. Enter details from your IT administrator.

The following versions of Microsoft® Exchange server are suppoted: Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010.



Add an email account

1. From the home screen, touch Apps
2. Touch Settings
3. Touch Accounts & Sync
4. Touch + Add account (upper right hand corner)
5. Touch Corporate
   
   
   In the Setup Email screen, enter your email address and password. If you’re adding a second or subsequent email address, you can also check the option to use the new account to send all outgoing messages.
   
6. Touch Next. Or, if you need to enter email account settings the wizard can’t configure for you, touch Manual setup.
   
   When adding an Exchange ActiveSync account, you’re prompted to set how often and how you want to check for new email, how many days or weeks worth of email to store on your tablet, and a number of other options. You’re also asked whether you want to synchronize your contacts and calendar from the Exchange ActiveSync server to your tablet. You can change these settings later in the Contacts and Calendar applications.
   
7. Enter any other information requested by the type of account you’re adding and touch Done. Your IT administrator may need to customize some of the settings on the Exchange server for your Motorola XOOM to successfully sync.
   
8. Enter a name for the account and touch Done.
   
   Email starts downloading your email messages and you can start using it to send and receive messages using the new account.
   

If you are receiving an error, click on the error message below for more information:

This server requires security features that your Android device does not support

Unable to open connection to server

Setup could not finish. Username or password incorrect.

Gmail is Google’s web-based email service. When you first set up your phone, you configured it to use an existing Gmail Account, or you created a new account. The first time you open the Gmail application on your phone, your Inbox contains the messages from your Gmail Account on the web.

Set up Gmail

1. From the home screen, touch Apps   
2. Touch Settings 
3. Touch Accounts & Sync
4. Touch Add account
5. Touch Google
6. Enter your Gmail user name and password
   Note: If you do not have a Gmail or Google account, touch Create
7. Touch Sign in

Open Gmail

• Touch the Gmail icon on the Home screen or in the Launcher.

Remove an account
You can remove an account to delete it and all information associated with it. 

1. From the home screen, touch Apps   
2. Touch Settings 
3. Touch Accounts & Sync
4. Touch the account you wish to remove
5. Touch Remove account

Note: Video attachments in Gmail are not supported.

To setup Hotmail:

1. From the home screen, touch Apps > Settings > Accounts & sync
    
2. Touch + Add account > Email
   
3. Touch Manual setup
   
4. Touch POP3
   
5. Enter your username (complete email address including the @hotmail.com)
   
6. Enter your password
   
7. Enter POP3 server - pop3.live.com
   
8. Enter Port - 995    (you can also try 110)
   
9. Change Security type to  - SSL
   
10. Touch Delete email from server if you want to change this option.
    
11. Touch Next
    
12. Enter SMTP server - smtp.live.com
    
13. Enter Port - 587    (you can also try 25)
    
14. Change Security type to  - TLS
    
15. Touch Next
    
16. Require Sign in should be checked.
17. Customize email frequency
    
18. Touch Next
    
19. Enter a name for the account (optional)
    
20. Enter your name. This is the name will display on outgoing messages.
    
21. Touch Done

If your MSN account (Not Hotmail) does not work then you can try these setting.

Incoming  pop3.email.msn.com  port 110
Outgoing   smtp.email.msn.com   port 25

Your account is now set-up.  Please test sending and receiving an email.

***You can also bookmark the Hotmail Web Brower internet address into your Motorola XOOM for full Hotmail functionality and access to your personal folders at  http://mobile.live.com

To setup your Yahoo email:

1. From the home screen, touch Apps > Email
2. Enter your yahoo email address (name@yahoo.com) and your password
   
   

You can access Yahoo! Mail through the tablets browser at http://m.yahoo.com and save it as a bookmark.  Once you are on the page you can click Mail in the upper right corner and log into your Yahoo mail account.  

You can also add a bookmark to your phones homescreen to easily access your Yahoo mail account.

Instructions for adding a bookmark:

1. From the Motorola XOOM homepage find open space and press and hold your finger on the screen.
2. From the Widgets Menu, tap Bookmarks.
3. Tap and hold Bookmarks and drag to your homescreen

This will set a Yahoo bookmark on your phones home screen that will enable you to quickly tap and access your Yahoo mail.

The email application supplied in Android can work with both regular mailboxes, POP3 or IMAP, as well as webmail accounts, such as Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo.

PRECAUTION

The following instructions are given as-is and describe the normal steps needed to configure the email client for sending and receiving emails. Acer can not provide support on the configuration details, since these are dependent on your provider. In case you encounter problems in the configuration, or in sending and receiving email, please contact your provider.

SOLUTION

Use these steps to configure an email account in Android:

1. Open the Applications tab and tap Email.
2. If no account has been set up yet, you will be prompted to enter your email address and password.
3. If you use a webmail account, the configuration will be done automatically.
4. If you use a conventional email account, select the type of account: POP3 or IMAP. On the following screen, enter the details on the web server. You should receive these settings from your provider, typically as a part of your internet access subscription.