How to Setup E-mail on Your iPhone

Posted by Anonymous , 9/4/2007 Tags:SetupmailiPhone
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How to Setup E-mail on Your iPhone

Introduction

You use iTunes to sync your email accounts to iPhone. iTunes supports Mail and Microsoft Entourage on a Mac, and Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express on a PC. See article a??iPhone: Setting Up Syncinga?? for further details.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You'll Need

  • iphone
  • 10-15 minutes

Steps

1

Step One

If this is the first account youa??re setting up on iPhone, tap Mail. Otherwise, from the Home screen choose Settings > Mail > Accounts > Add Account.
2

Step Two

Choose your email account type: Y! Mail (for Yahoo!), Gmail, .Mac, AOL, or Other.
3

Step Three

Enter your account information:

If youa??re setting up a Yahoo!, Gmail, .Mac, or AOL account, enter your name, email address, and password. After that, youa??re done.

Otherwise, click Other, select a server typea??IMAP, POP, or Exchangea??and enter your account information.

* Your email address
* The email server type (IMAP, POP, or Exchange)
* The Internet host name for your incoming mail server (which may look like a??mail.example.coma??)
* The Internet host name for your outgoing mail server (which may look like a??smtp.example.coma??)
* Your user name and password for incoming and outgoing servers (you may not need to enter a user name and password for an outgoing server)

Overall Tips & Warnings

  • Exchange email accounts must be configured for IMAP in order to work with iPhone. Contact your IT organization for more information.
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How to Setup E-mail on Your iPhone

Introduction

Here is how to set up your email on your iPhone for the first time.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You'll Need

  • Activated iPhone
  • Email account
  • Couple of minutes

Steps

1

Step One

First thing you need to do is click on 'Mail'.
2

Step Two

Choose your email account type: Gmail, Y! Mail (for Yahoo!), .Mac, AOL, or whatever email you use.
3

Step Three

Enter your email account information. If this is a 'regular' account like yahoo, msn, comcast or any other provider you are now done, otherwise, keep reading!
4

Step Four

Click Other, select a server typea??IMAP, POP, or Exchangea??and enter your account information.

* Your email address
* The email server type (IMAP, POP, or Exchange)
* The Internet host name for your incoming mail server (which should look like 'mail.example.com')
* The Internet host name for your outgoing mail server ('smtp.example.com')
* Your user name and password for incoming and outgoing servers (you may not need to enter a user name and password for an outgoing server)

Overall Tips & Warnings

  • Exchange email accounts have to be configured for IMAP in order to work with iPhone. Contact your IT organization for more information.
  • Don't be daunted, this is just as easy as setting it up from home or work!
  • If this is not the first time you are setting mail up, you are just adding an account go to your home screen and choose Settings > Mail > Accounts > Add Account.
  • Changes that you make to your account on the iPhone are not reflected on your computer!
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