Can't sync email account from laptop to iphone - greyed out in itunes info

Hi there ...
Everythings working fine on my iphone except I haven't been able to sync my email account.
When I go hook up the phone ... and go to info ... the sync mail account is greyed out and I can't check it.
When I enter the email account on the iphone manually .... it won't connect to the outgoing server. I know all the info entered is correct as I double check it on my laptop. So I delete the account and try to sync ... and itunes is greyed out ...
Am I doing something wrong ... do you have to have all the info entered on the iphone first? or should it create it automatically. I guess I made the mistake of not syncing mail when plugged in my phone the very first time ... I thought it would be no problem later ... but that is not the case ...
Any help ...?

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