Can you add a school email address to the MyTouch 3G Slide?

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norris1969

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Can you add a school email address to the MyTouch 3G Slide?

I never seem to know how or if this is even possible. Can you add an EDU email address to an Android device? Someone who has can you please assist and be detailed? Setup seems so confusing.

Example email address:
[email protected]
 
You sure can, but you will probably need some info from the school's IT department. They most likely will not be overly willing to give this out, but just say you are trying to set up thunderbird or outlook or something, the info will be in there...

For incoming:

You will need your username (usually not your email but it can be; typically it is the username you enter to log onto a campus computer) and password (of course)


The school's IMAP server (the only way I could get mine to work reliably was through IMAP) (usually like an address such as "servername.schoolname.edu") and port #

lastly you should need the security type, and my school told me it was TLS but this would not work, "SSL (accept all certificates)" was the only way I could get mine through- this will usually determine your port # too

For outgoing:
outgoing was/is trickier, so I have mine routed through Gmail...

SMTP server: set to "smtp.gmail.com"
security type: "TLS (accept all certificates)"
Port: 587

[require sign in]
Your gmail username (don't add the "@gmail.com" part) and password.

And you're done... mine works like a charm and is sometimes more reliable than the "squirrelmail" system my school uses
 
This is way 2 complicated. With a Blackberry, you just enter in the email address and password and its all setup. Why is the Android so complicated?
 
I think that's the basic setting for a mail client.

In fact, you could at leat set a SMTP Server adreess and port(default port is 25), and set a POP3/IMAP server.
 
Yeah, I got it to go through just with the email address, but like in mail clients such as Thunderbird or Evolution (or even Mail), it doesn't always pull the messages and/or sync seamlessly and reliably with the original mail server. This is the only way I know of to do a complete sync, and is basically blow-by-blow of each option you will be asked to enter, even in the order you will have to put it in I think. It is more involved than just entering the email address, but this way it will work and you can know it will work. Please keep in mind too that Android is open source and so does not have access (philosophically speaking) to a lot of the "proprietary" closed-source "merchandise" code that BB or MS can and do use. This is essentially the same as setting up a mail client in a Linux distro or even on my iMac for my school account. Some clients and email servers are a bit inconvenient to set up, but you know how it works and what it is doing. This is especially true for the (usually) heavily guarded and protected school servers- so the problem isn't so much Android as it is the necessary protocols to gain authorized access to the school server.
This literally only takes like two minutes once you get the imap info from your school, I promise. And if you run into issues or have questions, we are all here to help...
 
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