Your NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color lets you send and receive email from one or more of your email addresses, such as your Gmail , Yahoo!, or other email account, such as a work email address.
Your NOOK must be connected to a Wi-Fi network in order to send and receive email.
Barnes & Noble does not provide email accounts.
Your NOOK Email Inbox retrieves the 25 most recent messages from each email address linked to your NOOK.
Launching the Email Application
You’ll find the Email application in the Apps window. To launch the Email application:
1. Tap the NOOK button to open the Quick Nav Bar. In the Quick Nav Bar, tap Apps.
2. In the Apps window, tap the Email application. The Email application launches.
If you have not set up an email account, the Email application displays a screen to create one.
If you have already set up an email address, the Email application displays your Inbox.
Managing Email Accounts
Types of Accounts
Your NOOK supports two types of email accounts:
• POP (an Internet standard for email)
• IMAP (another Internet standard for email)
Most Internet service providers (ISPs) and free email services (such as Google and Yahoo!) support both POP and IMAP. POP email programs usually send or receive messages in batches at timed intervals. IMAP establishes a continuous connection between your email program and the email server. Many people find that IMAP provides more stable service than POP, but both email protocols are popular and both work.
Setting Up an Account
You can set up multiple email accounts on your NOOK. For example, if you have both Gmail and Yahoo! email addresses, you can send and receive email for both accounts on your NOOK. One email address will be set as the default, so that when you send messages from your NOOK, you’ll use that account automatically.
Your NOOK offers you two ways of setting up an email account. You can enter simply your email address and a password and let your NOOK automatically configure your account with those credentials, or you can manually configure the account yourself.
Letting Your NOOK Set up Your Account
To let your NOOK automatically configure your email account:
1. On the email set-up screen, enter the email address of the account you want to configure. This should be an email address you already have set up with your ISP or with an email service provider such as Google.
2. Enter the password for the email address. If you would like to see the password as you type it, check the Show Password box below the password field.
3. To make this account the default account you will use for sending mail from your NOOK, check the box labeled Send email from this account by default.
Tap Next. Your NOOK connects to the email account and set up a connection. If your NOOK connected successfully, it displays a new screen with a congratulatory message at the top. The screen features these two fields:
• Account name
• Your name
If it is unable to do so, it displays an error message.
4. If you would like to give this account a name (such as Gmail) so you can distinguish it from other email accounts on your NOOK, enter the name in the field labeled Give this account a name. If you do not want to give this account a name, leave this field blank.
5. In the field labeled Your name, enter your name as you would like it to appear in email messages you send. This name is the name that shows up in the From field in email listings.
6. Click Done. You’ve finished setting up your email account.
Manually Setting up Your Account
To set up your account manually, you will need to know the name of your account’s email server. Most ISPs and email service providers provide this information in their help pages. If you setting up an email account for a business or other private organization, you might need to ask a system administrator for the server name and other relevant configuration information.
1. On the email set-up screen, enter the email address of the account you want to configure. This should be an email address you already have set up with your ISP or with an email service provider such as Google.
2. Enter the password for the account. If you would like to see the password as you type it, check the Show Password box below the password field.
3. To make this the default account you will use for sending mail from your NOOK, check the box labeled Send email from this account by default.
4. Tap Manual Setup. Your NOOK displays a Server settings screen.
5. In the Domain Username field, enter your username for this server. Some servers require that your name begin with a backward slash \. Your system administrator will know whether or not your email account requires this.
6. In the Server name field, enter the name of the server.
7. To always use SSL when connecting to the email server, check the Use secure connection (SSL) field. SSL, which stands for Secure Socket Layer, is a widely-used technology for encrypting Internet so it cannot be intercepted or tampered with.
8. To accept all SSL certificates from email servers, check the box labeled Accept all SSL certificates.
9. Tap Next. Your NOOK connects to the email account and set up a connection. If your NOOK connected successfully, it displays a new screen with a congratulatory message at the top. The screen features these two fields:
• Account name
• Your name
10. If you would like to give this account a name (such as Gmail) so you can distinguish it from other email accounts on your NOOK, enter the name in the field labeled Give this account a name. If you do not want to give this account a name, simply leave these field blank.
11. In the field labeled Your name, enter your name as you would like it to appear in email messages you send. This name is the name that shows up in the From field in email listings.
12. Click Done. You’ve finished setting up your new email account.
Adding an Account
Once you have set up one email account, you can add others, so that you can send and receive email from multiple accounts on your NOOK. On the main Email screen, click the Add Account button, and follow the instructions above for setting up an account.
Switching from One Account to Another
If you have set up more than one email account on your NOOK, you can switch from one account to another by pulling down the Account menu at the top of Email screen and selecting the name of the account you want to switch to.
You can also select Combined Inbox to see all your messages from your accounts in a single Inbox folder.
Deleting an Account
Deleting an account removes the account configuration settings and any email folders associated with the account. If you have downloaded messages to your NOOK and you have not left copies on the server or on another device, those messages will be lost when the account is deleted.
To delete an email account:
1. On the main Email screen, tap the checkbox next to the name of the account you want to delete.
2. Once the checkbox is checked, tap the Delete icon (a trash can) in the upper right corner of the screen.
3. A dialog box appears, asking you to confirm that you want to delete the account.
4. Tap OK.
