Sky email is easy to use to organize your contacts and events. Sky email is uncomplicated to register and start, since there is also the option to transfer the previous contacts of another email platform to collect them in one place. Moreover, it gives the opportunity to be set up on mobile phone, so it’s reachable anytime anywhere. One of its significant advantages is the plain layout and the tabs and folders that segregate the incoming emails. For those who enjoy to intervene in an artistic way, there are a lot of photographic themes, that can customize the background and change the color of the layout of tabs, email and calendar. The filters and the search tools are very helpful in order to find mails even if there are in quantities.
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Access Sky email from your mobile device or tablet
To set up sky email on a smartphone or iphone, it is important that there are not mistakes on POP or IMAP settings, if there is any error with pre-installed mail app. POP actually sends emails from the server to computer, smartphone or tablet. IMAP is useful for the two way syncing, for example if someone delete an unwanted message from the mobile phone’s Sky mail app, this email will automatically be deleted when access the mail from the computer. An asset for syncing contacts on Apple or Android is CardDAV, which is an internet open standard and higly recommended.
Secure Sky email connection
Your email box is a private box with all your mail inside. You don’t want anyone to read your emails with private information. While traveling inside or outside your country you will use public WiFi connections to open your email and even for browsing the internet. While you are connected to a public hotspot you are not using the internet with a secure connection. Everything you do (browsing, mailing) is visible for the owner of the public hotspot. You don’t want this! VPN is the solution to this problem. With VPN you setup a private connection to the internet. This will ensure you that everything you do is hidden. Read more on VPN here
Ios and Android
If you don’t want to use your browser for Sky email you can also use your smartphone, tablet, desktop or laptop for receiving and sending emails. you need the right settings for setting up you mobile device for webmail. All the broadband providers in the UK use different servers for webmail. You can use a standard email program on iOS, Android or Windows for your webmail. The only thing you need is an email-address and password from your broadband provider. For the settings and help with the installation look below.
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Sky email settings
Below you will find the settings like POP3,IMAP,SMTP for the Sky webmail. Also videos to install webmail on ios and android.
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Set up an email account on an iPhone/iPad
- On your iPhone or iPad, tap Settings followed by Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Add Account and then Other.
- Tap Add Mail Account
- On the next screen, fill in your Sky Email account details:Name: Your name.
Email: Your full Sky Email address.
Password: The password you use to access your Sky Email account.
Description: Your iPhone/iPad may automatically display “Sky” here, it is optional for you to change this. - On the next screen make sure that:
- The IMAP tab is highlighted
- Host Name is imap.tools.sky.com
- Username is your full Sky Email address, including ‘@sky.com’
- For Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), your Host Name is smtp.tools.sky.com
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Set up a Sky Yahoo Mail account on Blackberry
If you have a Blackberry Z10, you can find instructions for setting up Sky Yahoo Email on your device further down the page. Otherwise, follow the instructions below.
- On the Home screen, go to Set Up.
- Select Email Accounts.
- Select the account type Other.
- Enter your Sky Yahoo Mail address and password.
- If the BlackBerry displays an error message such as “Invalid email address or password. Verify your email address and password.”, close the message if necessary and select the option “I will provide the settings”.Note: In some cases, “I will provide the settings” may not appear. To force this option to appear, enter an invalid email address such as username@sky.com and an invalid password.Be sure to re-type the correct email and password once the advanced settings are made available.
- Select POP/IMAP. Enter the following information:Email server: pop.tools.sky.com if using POP3
Email server: imap.tools.sky.com if using IMAP
Username: Your Sky Yahoo Mail address
Password: Your Sky Yahoo Mail account password - Click Continue or Finish to complete the set up.
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Set up an email account on Android
- On your device, tap the Email app. Select the Email tab and tap New.
- Tap Add Account.
- Enter your full Sky Yahoo Mail address and password and tap Next.
- Select the appropriate account type — POP or IMAP.
- Enter the following Incoming Server Settings:Username: full Sky Yahoo Mail address
Password: Your Sky Yahoo Mail account password
POP3 server: pop.tools.sky.com with Port 995 if using POP3
IMAP server: imap.tools.sky.com with the Port 993 if using IMAP
Make sure the Security type is set to “SSL (Accept all certificates)”. - Tap Next.
- Enter the following Outgoing Server Settings and tap Next:smtp.tools.sky.com with Port 465
Make sure the Security type is set to “SSL (Accept all certificates)”. - You can personalise your account name and enter your full name in the Your namefield.
- Tap Done when complete.