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Help Trouble Setting Up E-mail Accounts (.edu in particular)

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Jhogan412

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Hey everyone, I'm very new (like 5 minutes new) to the site so I apologize if this thread is posted in the wrong place.

The other day, I took my Droid into a Verizon Store because I couldn't figure out how to add e-mail addresses to the E-mail app. I ended up having to wait over an hour before the rep at the store could find a compentent IT guy to walk him through the process. That was for a Yahoo! account.

From what I've heard, the process for setting up a .edu account is completely different from a Yahoo! account and I thought I'd ask here before wasting availible daylight sitting in another Verizon store looking at phones and accessories I'm clearly not going to buy lol. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks everyone
 
It isn't the domain as much as the server. What type of mail server is your .edu institution using?

(Moving to Droid forums for you.)
 
Exchange has its own setup through Active Sync. When you add your mail account, you need to choose Corporate, then configure with the settings for your mail server. You may want to contact your IT staff for help, since you will need to know things like the name of the internal domain.
 
Here's a copy of a step-by-step I did in another thread.

1) From Android home screen, open the menu and select Settings / Accounts & Sync
2) Exchange account is listed as mailname@domain.com and sync is On. Touch this account
3) Verify Sync Corporate Calendar and Sync Contacts are both checked
4) Touch top menu item "Account Settings"
5) Most settings are preferences. Scroll down to the next to the last menu item and select "Incoming Settings"
6) Verify these settings are correct.
* domain\username: Your domain is your internal logon domain, not your external domain (unless they are the same). Typically, this is a one-word netbios name. If you are not sure what this is, look at your windows computer when you logon to your internal network. The 3rd box is your domain. Also note that is a back slash. It won't work correctly with a front slash between the domain and your username.
* Password: your pw
* Exchange server: This is the URL for your exchange server without the leading protocol. For example, use mail.domain.com instead of http://mail.domain.com
* Use secure connection should be checked.
* Accept all SSL certificates is not checked on mine. We use a public cert authority.

It will setup when you click next at the bottom.
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