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How do I setup email on my Android device?

So you want to setup your email on your new Android device? Don’t worry, it’s easy – we’ll have you up and running in 5 minutes. Just follow these steps…

  • Open your Android device email application
  • If you already have an email account set up, Press Menu and tap Accounts. Press Menu again and tap Add Account.
  • Type your email address and password then hit Next
  • Select IMAP to use your mail direct on the server. (Use POP if you want to permenantly download emails to your actual device rather than viewing them from the server.)

Incoming Server settings:

Username: your email address
Password: your password
IMAP server: mail.yourdomainnamehere.com
Port: 143
Security type: None
IMAP path prefix: leave blank

Outgoing server settings:

Most ISP do not allow 3rd party SMTP servers, so you will need to use that provided by your ISP, see here for more details: Find your ISP SMTP Server Name

Plesk – Unable to stat entry ‘/usr/local/psa/handlers/info/’

Re: Mail being bounced even though Mailbox exists, bounce message

“Hi. This is the qmail-send program at server.mailserver.com.
I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.”

Take a look in the mail log file:

tail -1500 /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog

You see errors such as this:

Unable to stat entry '/usr/local/psa/handlers/info'

To resolve you need to remove and rebuil all mail handlers as follows:

1. Stop the mail service

    # /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mailmng --stop-service

    OR

    # service qmail stop

2. Backup old handlers in a temporary directory

    # mkdir /usr/local/temp

    # cp -a /usr/local/psa/handlers/before-* /usr/local/temp/

    # cp -a /usr/local/psa/handlers/info /usr/local/temp/

3. Remove the handlers

    # rm -rf /usr/local/psa/handlers/before-*/*

    # rm -rf /usr/local/psa/handlers/info/*

4. Recreate handlers using mchk utility

    # /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk --with-spam

5. Start mail service:

    # /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mailmng --start-service

    OR 

    service qmail start

This may take a little time however it will resolve all errors.