Android
Configure Qboxmail email, contacts, and calendars on Android with the correct account and synchronization settings.
In this guide, we will configure email and the Contacts and Calendar apps available on Android to access the address book and calendar services offered by Qboxmail.
This way, you can keep the address books and calendars available in Webmail synchronized with Android as well. New contacts or events created in Webmail will also be visible from Android and vice versa.
If you need to configure your email account using Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync go to the dedicated guide.
What you need
- An active email account on Qboxmail
- A domain with a Professional or Enterprise plan to access shared Address Book and Calendar services
- Samsung Email (downloadable from the Play Store)
- Open Sync app (downloadable from the Play Store)
Compatibility
We recommend using the latest version of Android available for your device to avoid synchronization issues when using the latest available technologies.
Email configuration
To configure a Qboxmail email account on an Android device, you need to use the POP or IMAP protocols to receive messages and SMTP to send them.
- Open the client after installation (if it is already installed and configured, click the gear icon in the side menu and choose Add account)
- Choose Other
- Enter the username and password of the mailbox to configure and confirm with the Sign in button
- Select IMAP as the account type
In the screen that opens, enter the following information:
- Email address: email address to configure
- Username: full email address
- Password: the account password
- IMAP server: imap.qboxmail.com
- Security type: SSL
- Port: 993
- SMTP server: smtp.qboxmail.com
- Security type: SSL
- Port: 465
- Require authentication to send email: YES
- Confirm the username and password to use for sending
- Click Sign in
Once done, the configuration window will close and the client will start synchronizing email. Now check that the email synchronization period is set correctly:
- Open the side menu
- Click the gear icon
- Click the configured account in the list
- Check the value of Email sync period and set it to 1 month
Address Book and Calendar configuration with Open Sync
After installing the app on the Android device, follow these steps:
- Disable the device battery optimization by clicking Disable for opensync in the popup that appears on screen
- Install OpenTask to enable task support
- Click the orange plus button to add the DAV account
- Select Sign in with URL and username
Enter the Qboxmail DAV server details here:
- Base URL: https://dav.qboxmail.com/SOGo/dav
- Username: email address of the account to configure
- Password: password of the account to configure
- Click Login
- In the Contact group method field, select Groups are separate VCards
- Click CREATE ACCOUNT
After creating the account, a notification will appear asking you to grant the plugin access permissions to Calendar and Contacts. After granting access permissions, click the account you just added.
In the screen that opens, all address books and calendars of the Qboxmail account will be displayed. Select the resources to synchronize and then force the first synchronization by clicking the button with the two arrows in the top bar.
When synchronization is complete, the contacts and events from the added Qboxmail resources will be visible by opening the calendar or address book app on the Android device.