Need big help with setting up mail account.

Okay first, I would like to say you guys really need a sticky of basic instructions on how to set up a mail account for different carriers. I use Gmail mainly but I cannot get my mail to sync for the life of me with POP on and everything. I also heard Gmail is buggy and I would like to try an IMAP account which I heard was better. Can ANYONE give me some good step by step instructions on how to set one up. What is the best? What works well? I am willing to create a new email just for the iPhone. Thanks in advanced!

There are too many email account providers from internet service providers to non-ISP email account only providers for Apple to provide "basic" instructions for each. The iPhone's email client is not much different from an email client on a computer and the require account setup information is provided by your ISP or email account provider.
You can't just set up an IMAP account. You must have an email account provider that supports/provides an IMAP account and there aren't many that do. Most ISPs and email account providers support/provide POP accounts only.
Yahoo provides a free IMAP account for iPhone customers but there are advertisements included with each sent message. An Apple .Mac account can be accessed as an IMAP account.

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