Here’s where you make changes to or add new email accounts, Gmail accounts, and accounts for social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. It’s also where you adjust the way the Backup Assistant works, if you use it.
Tap an icon for one of your email accounts (aside from Gmail), and you come to a basic setup screen where you can change your basic email settings. You can also delete an account from your Droid 2 by tapping “Remove account”.
General settings. Here’s where you enter your email address, the account name (what the Droid 2 displays for the account—think of it as a nickname that makes it easy to identify the account), and the account’s “real name.” So if you have an email account with an Internet service provider called MyBigISP, the real name of the account would be MyBigISP, but you might want to use the name “Home email.” You can, of course, make the account name and the real name the same.
Incoming Server. These settings tell the Droid 2 where and how to grab email that’s sent to you. You’ll need information such as the type of mail server (for example, POP or IMAP), your user name and password, the port number, and so on. Get this information from your email provider, or from your computer’s email program.
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For more information about setting up your email account, the difference between POP accounts and IMAP accounts, and so on, see Setting Up Email Accounts.
Outgoing Server. This tells the Droid 2 how to send outgoing mail. You need the same type of information as you need for Incoming Server, so check with your mail provider or your computer’s email software.
Other settings. Tap to set whether you want the Droid 2 to delete email messages. Your choices are to never delete them, or delete them after a week, two weeks, a month, or two months.
The Droid 2 handles Gmail and your Google account differently than it does other email accounts, so they get their own settings. You don’t need to enter information about your incoming and outgoing server, because when you set up Gmail, the Droid 2 handles all that automatically.
Instead, you set whether to synchronize your calendar with Google Calendar, your contacts with your Gmail contacts, and the mail on your Droid 2 with Gmail servers. If you uncheck the box of any service, it won’t synchronize. The screen also shows you the last time each was synced. To sync them all manually, press the Menu key and then tap “Sync now”. To remove your Google and Gmail account from your Droid 2, tap “Remove account”.
If you have a Facebook account, tap its icon if you need to change your username or password. You can also remove the account from the phone by tapping “Remove account”. If you want to change any other Facebook options, you must do so on the Web.
If you use Backup Assistant to back up your contacts, tap this item to set options like whether and how to automatically back up your contacts. This setting also gives details about the last time you backed them up.
If you want to set up a new email account, social networking account, or similar type of account, tap this button. You come to a page with a list of account types, such as email, Facebook, MySpace, and so on. Tap the account you want to set up, and follow the instructions (which vary for each type of account).