Android phone users - email help please!

meshaliu

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My Hero has a little icon for not gmail email. I want to make it talk to my yahoo email since hooking it up to my work email is an impossibility, but I keep getting an error. I was wondering if anyone else has been successful in this endevor? I really don't want to have to switch everything over to gmail. That would be a PITA.

Thanks!

enkeli224

I have a Droid Eris, and I actually had to google 'how to add yahoo email account to droid eris' to get an answer. I found a message board which walked me through it.

I had to change the IP address, etc.

meshaliu

Got it! Just in case anyone else needs this:

1. Make sure Wi-Fi is turned off
2. Press the E-Mail icon (the default Android E-Mail application)
3. Enter your Yahoo E-Mail address and password
4. Press ?Manual Setup? in the lower left hand corner
5. For ?Incoming Server Settings? set the IMAP server to ?imap.mail.yahoo.com? and the Port to 143
6. For ?Outgoing Server Settings? set the SMTP Server to ?smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com? and the Port to 587
7. Check ?Require sign-in? and press Next
8. Select how often your Droid will check for Email, and choose default options
9. Give the account a name and set your display name for outgoing messages

enkeli224

Glad you found it!