Administrate server settings

    In your mail.com Mail App for Android, you can decide when you want to receive emails and what the search frequency rate for new emails should be. In addition, you can synchronise contacts from your mail.com account and specify a standard account in case you´re using the app with several accounts.

    How to activate the email push function

    1. Tap the menu symbol in the menu bar.
      The menu navigation is shown.
    2. Tap the gearwheel symbol.
    3. Tap your email adress.
      The screen Account settings opens.
    4. Under Server settings, tap Email push, to receive emails automatically in real time.

    How to transfer contacts from your mail.com address book to your device

    1. Tap the menu symbol in the menu bar.
      The menu navigation is shown.
    2. Tap the gearwheel symbol.
    3. Tap your email adress.
      The screen Account settings opens.
    4. Under Server settings, tap Take over contacts to activate synchronisation with your mail.com address book.

    How to set up your standard account in mail.com Mail App for Android if you are using it with multiple accounts

    1. Tap the menu symbol in the menu bar.
      The menu navigation is shown.
    2. Tap the gearwheel symbol.
    3. Tap your email adress.
      The screen Account settings opens.
    4. Under Server settings, tap Standard account to send standard messages from the mail.com account for which you are making this setting.
      If the standard account set up in the app is not active and you want to write a new email using quick access by pressing down the app symbol on your smartphone homescreen, the email address set up as the standard account is nevertheless entered as the sender.