With ActiveSync, you can synchronize your mailbox on multiple mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, using your favorite applications. And you can use any e-mail app available on your device, including the native apps for email, calendar and contacts.
Even better, you can use ActiveSync to not only sync you email, but also contacts, calendar and notes. To set up your email account as an ActiveSync, follow these steps to add the email account to your mobile device.
Add a new mail account to your mobile device
Example configuration for an iOS mobile device using ActiveSync
1. In your mobile Settings, find the menu related to Mail or Accounts. Find the option to Add account and select a new account of type ActiveSync. Some devices might call this type of account Exchange or Microsoft Exchange.
2. Select Manual Setup or Advanced Setup.
3. Fill in the advanced details:
USER INFORMATION
Name the name that will be displayed in emails as “From”. It can be your full name, the name of the Company, etc.
Email Address: your full email address, for example, john.doe@example.net or john@mydomain.com.
SERVER DETAILS
Mail server: the server will have your domain name, in this form: mydomain–com.w.emailarray.com.
LOGIN INFORMATION
User Name / Email address / Username: your full email address
Password: the password of your email address (the existing password that you have set up when you created the email address)
4. Click the Finish button to complete the setup
5. Send a test mail.
