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- # Setup help
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- Mostly setting up FairEmail is fairly simple.
- You'll need to add at least one account to receive email and at least one identity if you want to send email.
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- ## Requirements
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- An internet connection is required to add accounts and identities.
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- Your email provider should support IMAP with the IDLE and UIDPLUS extensions.
- All up-to-date email providers do, with as notable exception Yahoo!
- IMAP IDLE is required to limit battery usage,
- see [this FAQ](https://github.com/M66B/open-source-email/blob/master/FAQ.md#FAQ5) for more details.
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- Your email provider should support secure connections.
- If your provider doesn't support secure connections and you care at least a little about your privacy,
- you are strongly advised to switch to another provider.
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- For security reasons, your account need to have a non empty password set.
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- ## Account
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- To add an account, tap on *Manage accounts* and tap on the orange *add* button at the bottom.
- Select a provider from the list, enter the username, which is mostly your email address and enter your password.
- If you use Gmail, tap *Select account* to fill in the username and password.
- Tap *Check* to let FairEmail connect to the email server and fetch a list of system folders.
- After reviewing the system folder selection you can add the account by tapping *Save*.
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- If your provider is not in the list of providers, select *Custom*.
- Enter the domain name, for example *gmail.com* and tap *Get settings*.
- If your provider supports [auto-discovery](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6186), FairEmail will fill in the host name and port number,
- else check the setup instructions of your provider for the right IMAP host name and port number.
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- ## Identity
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- Similarly, to add an identity, tap on *Manage identity* and tap on the orange *add* button at the bottom.
- Enter the name you want to appear in de from address of the emails you send and select a linked account.
- Tap *Save* to add the identity.
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- See [this FAQ](https://github.com/M66B/open-source-email/blob/master/FAQ.md#FAQ9) about using aliases.
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- ## Permissions
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- If you want to lookup email addresses, have contact photos shown, etc, you'll need to grant read contacts permission to FairEmail.
- Just tap *Grant permissions* and select *Allow*.
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- ## Battery optimizations
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- On recent Android versions, Android will put apps to sleep when the screen is off for some time to reduce battery usage.
- If you want to receive new emails without delays, you should disable battery optimizations for FairEmail.
- Tap *Disable battery optimizations* and follow the instructions.
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- ## Questions
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- If you have a question or problem, please [see here](https://github.com/M66B/open-source-email/blob/master/FAQ.md).
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