Help trying to set up email account on eris....which option do i use?

[done4fun]

i have my contacts through google this time...(i just got a new phone to replace messed up one and had to manually do contacts)....so i have my google addy and contacts synced.so do i set up email as exchanges activesync acct....or other(POP3/IMAP)i dont know things like domain name and so on...i know a fair amount about this stuff but by no means a techy as you can see....thanks in advance and im disabled so slow with fingers and searching get frustrating.
best regards,
Done4fun.....Ken

if it matters to say....i dont really use my phone for email as a must only want this if i need it to up load picks to net or post uploads to you tube....i dont need my phone to recieve email at all....so if i dont need it moot post...if i should have as a convienencee i would like it set up

 

[doogald]

Only you can decide if email is important to have delivered to your phone.

Domain name is the part of the email address to the right of the "@". So, an email address of something@gmail.com has a domain of gmail.com.

If you can choose one or the other, I'd choose IMAP over POP3 for mail delivery. POP3 and IMAP are both protocols for receiving mail from a mail server, but POP3 does not sync read and unread messages with a collection of mail from a server (usually); it is designed to download all of your mail and work on the mail on your mail client. IMAP stores messages on the mail server by design and synchronizes whether you have read messages, etc. with other mail clients. However, not all mail servers support IMAP.

Your email provider will need to provide the details for connecting to an IMAP or POP3 mail server (as well as the server used for mail delivery, which uses a protocol called SMTP.)

By the way, if you have an Eris, you should use a third-party mail client for Android such as K9 mail rather than the stock email application, which has a serious bug that affects phone performance.