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To Set up Email on Your Android-based Device

  1. Open your device's email application.

  2. If you already have an email account set up, press Menu and tap Accounts. Press Menu again and tap Add account.

  3. Type your Email address and Password, and click Next.

  4. If you have IMAP, tap IMAP. If you're not sure, tap POP3.

  5. You can use SSL/TLS or leave it as none.  With None ports are 110/143 and 2525 for pop/imap and SMTP.

  6. Use these settings for your incoming server, depending on the type of email you have:

POP3

Username

Enter your full email address.

Password

Enter your email account password.

POP3 server

mymail.brinkster.com

Port

110

Security

None

SSL Option

SSL - Use Port 995 instead of 110


IMAP

Username

Enter your full email address.

Password

Enter your email account password.

IMAP server

mymail.brinkster.com

Port

143

Security

None

SSL Option

SSL - Use port 993 instead of 110




  1. Use these settings for your outgoing server:

SMTP (Outgoing Mail Server)

SMTP server

mymail.brinkster.com

Port

2525

Security type

SSL (may need to use TLS / TLS (accept all))

  1. Select Require sign-in and make sure your Username (your full email address) and Password are correct. Tap Next.

  2. Tap Next again. Name your account and enter the name you want to display on outgoing messages.

  3. Tap Done.

That's it. If everything is working OK, you should see some email messages. To make sure you can send messages, go ahead and compose an email and send it to yourself.


Below is how it should look for using SSL (left), or non ssl (right)