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Adding Outlook.com e-mail to standard android mail app

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Hi,

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 and I have recently set up an Outlook.com e-mail address via the web (www.outlook.com). I have also set this up to receive e-mail on my desktop via Microsoft Outlook 2010 (not the Outlook web app) and it is working fine.

I now want to add it to my android phone, but I do not want it as a separate app. I want to add to my standard mail app (as this is where I get all my other e-mails e.g. from my yahoo addresses).

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Hi tomohawk,

Have you looked at Microsoft's instructions here?

  1. On your device, tap Email, then tap Add account.

  2. Enter your Outlook.com email address and password, then tap Manual setup.

  3. Under What type of account is this? tap Exchange.

  4. If there is a Domain field, leave it blank. If there is a Username field, enter your email address.

  5. Enter your password.

  6. For Server name enter s.outlook.com.

  7. Make sure the Use secure connection (SSL) checkbox is checked, then tap Next.

  8. Choose your account options and tap Next.

  9. To finish setup, tap Done.
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Hope that helps :)
 
Thanks codesplice. There are some settings that I do not understand. Can you help?
Period to sync e-mail (what exactly does "sync" do?) What is the best setting?
What does "push" mean in sync schedule and peak schedule
What does "e-mail retrieval size" mean?
Period to sync calendar (I don't want to sync calendar)
Sync e-mail/Sync Contacts/Sync Calendar/Sync Tasks - I don't want to "sync" any (I think)
 
@tomohawk I'm not 100% sure on some of those myself. What email client are you using? (And/or what phone do you have?)

My guesses:
• Sync - Either how frequently the email client will retrieve messages from the server, or else how far back it will retrieve them (so do you want 2 weeks or 2 months worth of mail showing up on your phone)
• Push - This generally refers to the email server pushing mail to the phone as it comes in; the alternative is for the phone to periodically pull the mail from the server.
• Retreival Size - How much of a message to download, maybe? Do you want to load all 12MB of attachments, or just the ~1K email message?
• Period to sync calendar - same thing as the other sync, I imagine - how far back do you want to go?
• Sync email/contacts/calendar/tasks - you'll probably want to sync email and contacts, but can likely skip the others.

Does that help any?
 
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