Create Email account from type existing Account Services

Question

I have gone through SampleSyncAdapter sample project provided by Android doc, but as I understand, there we need to add an account of custom Account service. But my need is to create an email account from existing account services on device.

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To be more clear about my question, I am giving an example

Here are the Account services available on my Device

and I guess 'Google' and 'Email' account services are available on each Android device.

Now I want to configure an 'Email' account, so I must follow these below steps:

Step 1: Enter existing email id and password

Step 2: [a] General Settings Attributes : - (Account name, Real Name, Email Address)

Step 2: [b] Incoming server Attributes : - (POP or IMAP mail server, Server Address, user name, password)

Step 2: [c] Outgoing server Attributes : - (SMTP server, user name, password)

Step 3: By choosing Advanced settings, we can configure port and certificate options.

And we need to go through the above steps manually, but I want to create an Email account programmatically by using all above settings.

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So how can I create new email account from existing Account Services progrmatically? I need this functionality for MDM.

Answer 1

You are not allowed to do this for security reasons.

Imagine accounts being configured with settings that are unknown to the users - the users might not even know the accounts are being created at all! This would be a prime target point for malware, spam etc since no captcha, user permission or any other authentication is involved.

So this is a security measure....and a good one at that.