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Paulm: /* Instructions for Android phones */

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Instructions for Android phones

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Instructions for Android phones

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Misc.

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POP3

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Sending mail

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Sending mail

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POP3

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POP3

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POP3

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Outside the Free Geek network (or on FG wireless)

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 == Instructions for Android phones ==
-First of all we recommend you install [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9| K-9 Mail], this is a free and open-source email client for Android that is much more functional than the stock client.The following walk through assumes you have K9 installed, but the settings will be the same for other clients.
+First of all we recommend you install [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9| K-9 Mail], this is a free and open-source email client for Android that is much better than the stock client. The following walk through assumes you have K9 installed, but the settings will be the same for other clients.
 === Walk through for K9 Mail ===

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 == Instructions for Android phones ==
-First of all we recommend you install <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9">K-9 Mail</a>, this is a free and open-source email client for Android that is much more functional than the stock client.The following walk through assumes you have K( installed, but the settings will be the same for other clients.
+First of all we recommend you install [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9| K-9 Mail], this is a free and open-source email client for Android that is much more functional than the stock client.The following walk through assumes you have K9 installed, but the settings will be the same for other clients.
 === Walk through for K9 Mail ===

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 [https://mail.freegeek.org/password Email Password Change Web Interface]
-Or if that doesn't work, contact [[Technocrats]].
+Or if that doesn't work, contact [http://technocrats.freegeek.org| Technocrats].
 '''your address plus''' - mail addressed to "whoyouis+stuff@freegeek.org" will get delivered just the same as mail to "whoyouis@freegeek.org". You might use this feature to give different addresses to different sign-up services. Note:  You must use a "+" sign. More information on this can be found at the Wikipedia article [[wikipedia:E-mail address#Plus (or Minus) addressing]].

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	There is no reason to use this and you should not do so. "I've always used it" is not a reason, never mind a good one.		There is no reason to use this and you should not do so. "I've always used it" is not a reason, never mind a good one.
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−	*<del>Protocol - POP3</del>
−	*<del>Server - mail.freegeek.org</del>
−	*<del>username - the first part of your email before the @ symbol.</del>
−	*<del>server port - 995</del>
−	*<del>Encryption - SSL</del>
−	*<del>Authentication - Plain Text</del>

	=== Sending mail ===		=== Sending mail ===

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 *<del>Authentication - Plain Text</del>
-== Sending mail ==
+=== Sending mail ===
 Our SMTP server (mail.freegeek.org) is an authenticating SMTP server, this means you can send email from anywhere as log as you log in first. This works inside the network as well. You don't need to do anything special to login  as your email program will take care of it as long as you give the correct username and password. N.B. this differs form the one you use to read your email. It needs the @freegeek.org part as well.

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 ==== POP3 ====
-'''Use IMAP instead''', and sync your mail locally. There is no reason to use this and you should not do so. "I've always used it" is not a reason, never mind a good one.
+'''Use IMAP instead''', and sync your mail locally.
 *<del>Protocol - POP3</del>
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 *<del>Encryption - SSL</del>
 *<del>Authentication - Plain Text</del>
 === Sending mail ===

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 ==== POP3 ====
- There is no reason to use this and you should not do so. "I've always used it" is not a reason, never mind a good one. '''Use IMAP''' instead, and sync your mail locally.
+'''Use IMAP instead''', and sync your mail locally. There is no reason to use this and you should not do so. "I've always used it" is not a reason, never mind a good one.
 <del>
-*Protocol - POP3
+*<del>Protocol - POP3</del>
-*Server - mail.freegeek.org
+*<del>Server - mail.freegeek.org</del>
-*username - the first part of your email before the @ symbol.
+*<del>username - the first part of your email before the @ symbol.</del>
-*server port - 995
+*<del>server port - 995</del>
-*Encryption - SSL
+*<del>Encryption - SSL</del>
-*Authentication - Plain Text
+*<del>Authentication - Plain Text</del>
 </del>

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 === Sending mail ===
 Our SMTP server (mail.freegeek.org) is an authenticating SMTP server, this means you can send email from anywhere as log as you log in first. This works inside the network as well. You don't need to do anything special to login  as your email program will take care of it as long as you give the correct username and password. N.B. this differs form the one you use to read your email. It needs the @freegeek.org part as well.
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 You may receive a "greylisting" error message when sending to a freegeek address, even with your smtp server set to mail.freegeek.org.  If this happens, just resend the message after 5 minutes have passed.
-If you go to a location that blocks outgoing SMTP, you may not be able to send email from a mail client, though using authenticated SMTP over SSL generally still works. In these cases, you man use the web interface described above to send mail.
+If you go to a location that blocks outgoing SMTP, you may not be able to send email from a mail client, though using authenticated SMTP over SSL generally still works. In this case, you may use the web interface described above to send mail.
 == Misc. ==