Set up mail in Sony Xperia M5 Dual

1- First step:

Find and open the mail application on your Xperia M5 Dual, normally devices with Android 5.0 (Lollipop)| upgradable to 5.1 (Lollipop) operating system come with the Gmail application installed.

You can use the Gmail App to configure your mail, regardless of the provider, even if it is a company email with a domain of its own. If you can not find it on the home screen, drag the screen to the left or right until you find it, if it does not appear, access the Sony Xperia M5 Dual menu.

Your Sony must come from the factory with a mail app otherwise go to Play Store, search and download Gmail, Outlook or Blue mail.

2- Second step:

The Gmail application may be included in a folder called "Google", otherwise slide up from the home screen to access the list of applications on the Xperia M5 Dual, you will be able to find the Gmail application, it is the icon with a capital M. Click on the icon to continue.

3- Third step:

Click on the menu in the upper left corner to go to Gmail Settings on your Xperia M5 Dual it is the icon with the three horizontal lines.

4- Fourth step:

If you don't have any account configured on your Sony, the "Add account" option will appear; otherwise, scroll down until you find the "Settings" section, press to continue.

5- Fifth step:

Within the settings of the Gmail application of the Sony Xperia M5 Dual, you will see "General settings" and under this option "Add account" will appear, press to continue.

6- Sixth step:

At this point you can choose which email account you want to configure on your Sony Xperia M5 Dual, a Google account, Outlook, Hotmail, Live, Yahoo, Exchange, Office 365 or an account with its own domain (for example a company account), if your case is the latter, choose "Other service".

7- Seventh step:

In the case of Google, Outlook, Hotmail, Live, Yahoo, Exchange or Office 365 it is only necessary to enter the email account and the password, if you have your own domain or another mail service, write the email address you want to configure and click "Next".

8- Eighth step:

Select the type of account you want to configure in your Sony Xperia M5 Dual, IMAP or POP.

What differentiates an IMAP account from a POP or POP3?
When you set up an IMAP account in your Xperia M5 Dual you keep a copy of the emails in the cloud, that is, in the mail server.

If you delete an email or move it from a folder in your Sony Xperia M5 Dual that change will also occur on the server and therefore on all devices that are configured with the same email account.

On the other hand, if you set your Sony with a POP or POP3 account, the emails are downloaded to the device and can be deleted, read or changed without affecting the other devices that have the same email account.

Usually this configuration is used for shared accounts in which several people want to keep the emails that have been read by others as NOT read or for those who have the email in the mobile and on the computer and do not want the changes to be reflected in the other device.

9- Ninth step:

Enter the password of the email account you want to set up on your Xperia M5 Dual.

10- Tenth step

Proceed to configure the incoming server, firstly as username, enter the email account that you are configuring and its password, in server you must enter the incoming server, normally mail.yourserver.com or imap.yourserver.com (changing yourserver.com with your domain) in any case check with your mail provider the configuration.

11- Step eleven

The outgoing server configuration is similar to the incoming one, as username, enter the email account that you are configuring and its password. Enter your outgoing server or SMTP server, press next to continue.

12- Step twelve

Now, configure the synchronization options of the email account, choose how often you want the Xperia M5 Dual to check if there are new emails to download. You can choose if you want to receive a notification every time an e-mail is received.

Check the option "Synchronize mail from this account" if you want them to be synchronized automatically, if you uncheck it you will have to access the mail application and update to receive the e-mails. Choose if you want attachments to be downloaded automatically when connected to a Wi-Fi network. If you want to save battery and mobile data on your rate, uncheck all these options.

13- Step thirteen

Finally, you can give a name to this email account that you have just configured in the Xperia M5 Dual, the name of the account may be different from the email address. Type the name you want to appear on messages sent from this account.