Although a lot of non-business communication is by social media, email is still a powerful and useful technology.
Mobile devices allow you to use an app to display your email.
Email Access in Apps
If you have an email account already it is usually simple use the user name (often the email name) and the password in an email App.
With this information you can then have your email delivered to your mobile phone or tablet.
iPad or iPhone
You need an Apple account to use these devices.
When the device is first set up an email is part of the set up processes.
The email account will take the form
moc.duolci|emanresu#moc.duolci|emanresu
This account must be set up for security purposes and access to the App store.
It is possible to continue to use an existing email account for all other emails.
See below for more details.
NOTE: for username use something that does not identify you in any way as this assists scam emails to appear more real.
So do not use, for example, if your name is Jing Ho you might want to use: moc.duolci|oh_gnij#moc.duolci|oh_gnij but it is better to make it something unconnected to you and your family like: moc.duolci|todaklop#moc.duolci|todaklop
Android Tablet or Phone
You need a Google account to use these devices.
This will include a GMail account which will have an email of the form
moc.liamg|emanresu#moc.liamg|emanresu
This account must be set up for security purposes and access to the App store (ie Google Play Store).
You can use this account with the GMail app if this is convenient, but it is possible to continue to use an existing email account for all other emails.
See below for more details.
NOTE: for username use something that does not identify you in any way as this assists scam emails to appear more real.
So do not use, for example, if your name is Jing Ho you might want to use: moc.liamg|oh_gnij#moc.liamg|oh_gnij but it is better to make it something unconnected to you and your family like: moc.liamg|dribyreehc#moc.liamg|dribyreehc
Using your own existing email account
On your device there may be an existing email app or you may wish to use an email app of your own choice.
To make that choice you will need to go to the App Store.
There is information on this on the Apps page, click here.
For your selected app, just tap or click on it and when it starts it will ask for the email account details. (user name and password)
Mostly this will result in the app being able to access and download your latest emails to your device.
In many of the email apps you will be able to view multiple email accounts by just adding the details mentioned above for each account.
This will allow you to monitor more than one email account if this is useful to you.
For more information about how email can work and how to use it with multiple accounts please click here
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