Google Apps is a service from Google for using custom domain names with Google services. Android allows you to use a Google Apps email as your primary account, but this guide is for setting up a secondary account. Many people have different email accounts for work and wish to keep them separate from their personal email.
Watch this video as we take you through the steps of setting up an alternate account using the Android app Email.
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I’m sorry but the default email client on Android system is POS.
The gmail client is 100x better than the email client. The background email checking is not working 100% of the time. The compose new message, reply, and many features are just so messed up.
k9 mail is better
your intro paragraph up there says…
“Many people have different email accounts for work and wish to keep them separate from their personal email.”
yep, that’s me!
i’m curious – if i initially setup my android phone w/ my google apps acct, and use this technique in the video to add an IMAP acct for my “personal” account, if someone from my “personal” sphere calls my cell phone, is their contact info in my phone? does the phone say “John Doe” when John Doe dials in?
great video! How do you set one up for yahoo accounts?
This video is very misleading, because it suggests that this is THE WAY to set up an Android device with Google Apps email. In fact, any Android device can be set up with Google Apps email as the primary email account fresh out-of-the-box. The only thing that this video serves to do is provide a way to supplement a primary Gmail login that is NON-Google Apps with a Google Apps email account. Really, it should just be taken down to avoid confusion.
That was the same thing I was about to type…
Real question is how to set-up two gmail accounts on push-mail mode.
Hi Guys i just bought the HTC Magic and the only e-mail i’m jusing is Gmail what is the Best to do for me use the Gmail logo on the screen or do like the video shows ?
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Peter Nielsen Denmark
i want 2 use this 4 my google email
I use a personal gmail account on my HTC Hero. After watching the video, I set-up email for my google app work domain account and it worked perfectly.
I thought that the Google Apps domain-name email account could be a push account. On my Blackberry it is push email. I don’t want to go backwards in service level. What can you tell me
I keep getting an error saying
The application email (processcom.android.email) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
any suggestions? I followed your directions to the T
This is on a Droid phone – Verizon service.
you wont get errors if you start back from factory settings, validating your Google account right from the first prompt; validating accounts for other social networks can be skipped.. as they can be validated later…
I am having same Droid email synch problem; sets up alright but then stops working after day 1
did you ever get this fixed???
Very helpful – thx
Can you configure the corporate calendar to work with google apps?
Is there a way to log in and out of email accounts once set up for security measures?
Hey… Thanks a ton! Couldn’t get this to work, but with your video it’s up and running!
I’m trying to set-up my google apps account on my droid and I followed all of the instructions in the video. Its my school account, so its a .edu account. Will that make any difference when setting it up, like is there something different I should do, or will this just not work for me?
I’ve set up my secondary Google Apps email as this video describes.
But whenever I send email from my HTC phone, it always creates a new label in Gmail called “[imap/sent]” and places that sent message in that group. Is there a way to avoid this? I’ve tried a number of different IMAP path prefixes, but none seems to do the trick.
Thanks for any suggestions.