Any other time you open Email, open the application menu, tap Preferences & Accounts, tap Add Account, and then tap Email Account.

4Enter your email address and password, and tap Manual Setup.

5Tap the Mail Type field and tap your account type.

6Enter info for the incoming and outgoing mail server as needed, based on the server information you got from your system administrator.

7Tap Sign In.

8Depending on the account, you may be presented with options for which apps should download data from that account. For each app, tap On or Off, and then tap Create.

9Tap Done.

Enter advanced account settings

These settings apply only to the account you select in step 3.

1Open Email .

2Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts.

3Tap the account name.

4Set any of the following:

Account Name: Enter the name that appears in the account list.

Full Name: Enter the name you want to appear in the From field for messages you send.

Show Icon: Set whether a notification icon appears onscreen when a new message arrives.

Alert: When Show Icon is on, set whether a sound plays when a new message arrives (see Turn new email notifications on/off).

Signature: Tap to create a signature that’s added to outgoing messages (see Add a signature to outgoing messages).

Reply-to Address: Enter the address you want recipients to see and reply to on your outgoing messages, if this is different from the email address you send the message from.

Show Email: Set how many days’ worth of messages to retrieve from the server.

Get Email: Set how frequently to synchronize email for this account.

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