Solved: Sky email with Android tablet "Couldn't open connection to server"
Solving connection issues with Sky.com email on a Huawei Mediapad T9 Android Tablet / Phone by following these steps. In particular the "Couldn't open connection to server" message which is all to do with the server name setting.
- Server: Set this to smtp.tools.sky.com
- Port: 465
- Tap the Security type arrow and select SSL/TLS
- Tick Require sign-in
- Username: this is your sky email address eg. mymail@sky.com
- Password: the sixteen character password from your Sky account
- Click Done.
Solution to Cannot safely connect to server in Incoming Settings.