Administrate server settings

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

    How to activate the e-mail push function

    1. Tap the menu symbol in the menu bar.
      The menu navigation is shown.
    2. Tap the gearwheel symbol.
    3. Tap your e-mail adress.
      The screen Account settings opens.
    4. Under Server settings, tap E-mail push, to receive e-mails automatically in real time.
    How to transfer contacts from your GMX 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 e-mail adress.
      The screen Account settings opens.
    4. Under Server settings, tap Take over contacts to activate synchronisation with your GMX address book.
    How to set up your standard account in GMX 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 e-mail adress.
      The screen Account settings opens.
    4. Under Server settings, tap Standard account to send standard messages from the GMX 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 e-mail using quick access by pressing down the app symbol on your smartphone homescreen, the e-mail address set up as the standard account is nevertheless entered as the sender.

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