Although it is normal to have a Gmail account on our Android taking into account the need for a Google account in order to take full advantage of this operating system as access Play Store or use other applications as synchronization markers of Google Chrome, YouTube, Google+, Google Hangouts and Google Drive among others, is also normal to have a work email account or your email account lifetime such as Hotmail, Yahoo, an account of our work or domain, etc..
This post will describe the options, benefits, configuration and use of applications that all have presinstalada but few make use of it for several reasons, for having adopted the default Gmail account redirecting all our other email to Gmail or using powerful email clients like K-9 or MailDroid among many others in the absence of improvements and updating of this application given Google’s bid for their own applications.
If I can redirect my mail to Gmail accounts why configure independently?
From Gmail settings tab “Accounts” We can import using POP3 emails from other accounts as well as giving the ability to write emails from another account within Gmail itself but there are two “buts” From Gmail If you write an email from Gmail even with our own “corporate” or alternatively, the receiver can see at the reception of this message a section which will “loquesea@mitrabajo.com ( from / sent por@gmail.com). If the receiver uses Gmail this message is quite discreet, however, if you use a desktop email client such as Outlook or Mac Mail it look good big and bold . This can be a problem if you want to give a corporate image or to serious problems in our own work by using tools outside the systems of our work.
Each thing in its place Another reason is that it can lead to problems when differentiate the personal from the professional or a personal account with the other as well as the risk that in the event of falling Gmail can not use the other e to be configured only our Gmail / Google on our Android. For this reason and depending on the situation, it is advisable to keep work separate from personal or some other accounts. A third alternative would be the use of Google Apps in the event that the company is our weight or have enough in our work to manage corporate email unifying domain using the Google tools but this would be another topic.
Differences
mail account POP3, IMAP or Exchange
Once the reasons mentioned, may have convinced you to discover the email client of Android, so we will set our primary email account, alternative or corporate client but first we must understand something basic and is the differences between POP3, IMAP or Exchange.
POP3
This is the incoming mail protocol oldest and therefore also the simplest. Does not require a constant internet connection to refresh every so often (I can configure) while the least data consuming since, precisely for being so veteran, you have to send many commands to the server to receive mail.
Another advantage is that the emails are stored locally so once you have downloaded will not have to connect or use the data to read and view or open attachments to be downloaded faster by the mail. The disadvantages include that to be stored locally, in the event that an email is malicious may compromise the security of the terminal as well as, if couriers download without saving on server may suffer a loss unrecoverable delete or if we restore our terminal.
other hand, if we keep the mail on the server, we depend on the size of our mail box having to delete mail on both the device and the server in case you do not want to generate double duty.
IMAP
IMAP has some advantages over POP3 such as:
emails are hosted on the server unless we select Otherwise, this helps independently from that client or server’s access the devices will always see the same post and organized the same way and have the copy of the original email hosted on the server (unless you remove it from there too).
However
IMAP has two major cons, the dependence of the connection we have when opening an email. Having a hosted mail our server if we have a bad connection soon opens or worse, if we have no connection, can not see the email in question.
ExchangeUsing Exchange
usually the most usual case of using corporate accounts and the most complete of the three options as well as e-mail can be synchronized from the Exchange server contacts both as calendar events or tasks. It also has support for POP3 or IMAP so an Exchange account can be configured as the previous two.
offers greater ease in managing different Exchange accounts from administration and is compatible with typical features such as email aliases, mailing lists, autoresponder or automatic forwarding, until the birth of Google Apps was the best solution for corporate email.
Configure an email account in the Android Mail client
Once
perform the Email application for Android will ask if you want to add an account.
When we go to add account the simple first step will be to enter our username and password and check if we default account is that if we already had one installed. If your email provider is popular (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) by clicking on “Next” will detect the incoming and outgoing servers are configured automatically and, if not want to perform this automatic configuration of our mail or not known to be necessary to manually configure mail servers will click on “Manual Setup”.
Sometimes this “autofill” Automatic Server can provide the wrong server or modified. For example, if we set up an MSN or Outlook client may fill us with pop3.msn.com or pop3.hotmail.com server but this server changed pop3.live.com
select “Manual Setup” will ask if you want to set up an account with POP3, IMAP or Exchange choosing the most appropriate version or the need to use the email you want.
Configure POP3
If we set up a POP3 mail account select that option when we will create and populate fields for:
class=”c23″> Username: This is usually the full email if there are servers that the user name is enough.
IMAP Set
In case you want to choose IMAP instead of POP3 and if the server supports it:
- Username: This is usually the full email if there are servers that the user name is enough.
Configuring Exchange
If a corporate account or use a server running Exchange:
class=”c23″> Domain Username
Exchange Server data is provided by the administrator of the same and to facilitate the client certificate if necessary. Once configured you can select if you want to also synchronize contacts, calendar and tasks we had in our own Exchange.
outgoing or SMTP server
When configuring a POP3 or IMAP account manually, you also have to configure your outgoing mail server in which the configuration is very similar to having to enter your user name, password, SMTP server, port and security type, and if it requires authentication to use it. It depends on the email provider that we have in order to choose the correct settings.
Account Settings
Once we set our or our accounts and we can configure settings independently from Android mail client.
When we select a set of accounts from the mail client settings can change the name so that it can more easily identify, configure the name you want them to appear or we can identify our target, create a signature for our outgoing mail, create rapid responses to create predefined or predetermined responses like “I’m busy”, “I’m on vacation”, etc..
also from here select which of our accounts is the default and select how often you want the phone to connect to check for new mail.
Regarding notifications
can select the notification for each account configured independently.
Finally, if you do not get to connect well or does not send e can review and modify the input and output servers to check the parameters or ports and find the reason for the error and finally will be from here on the last option where we can delete a configured account.
Application Settings
application settings are not very large focusing independently on each of the configured accounts. Yet from these settings to be displayed as “General” can change some aspects of the client as:
Auto Advance : We select we want to happen when we remove a mail, if you wish to go to the previous message, post or message list.
Message text size : We can choose between 5 different sizes we can do better to use.
Ask to see pictures : Even when something bad explained, the purpose of this option is to remove the privileges to which we have allowed emails automatically display the images and thus request that we always ask if you want to see the images embedded or attached in an email.
Main Screen
Once configured
our or our bills, and we can see the main screen mail client where simplicity is its main advantage (or lack) . We will most used folders such as Inbox, Drafts, Sent, sending (which also appears as sent) and Trash.
Logically andusual unread mail is bold and you can select one or several e holding down on it and from there you can select a block for deletion, mark as opened or point them to a star.
Conclusion
Despite the need for possible configuration of other email accounts Gmail outside, it is clear, both for the lack of updates, faulty translations and little evolution of this email client, that Google single bet and exclusively by your mail client, GMail leaving it to developers and third party applications creation and development of complete e-mail clients that the native Android.
However, if you are looking for something simple, without many configurations and meets its objective is to be able to receive and compose emails and especially those under Exchange server due to good timing with the Android system by contacts, calendar, email and tasks, the Native Client Android emails perfectly fulfills its function .
Moreover, although the most popular email providers like Yahoo!, Outlook, etc have their own applications to maximize the benefits of your service, in case of having different accounts different vendors, it is preferable to integrate them all from a single application that have two, three or more applications for each of the emails we have with the subject space and battery that can lead .
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