I can get my Gmail account to work but not my school email?

I have a school email account that I can access through safari but I can't get it to setup through the "Other" account area of Mail on the iPhone... Personally I don't think it is going to work at all because I don't know what to input in the outgoing mail server area? If someone could enlighten me that'd be fabulous. Thanks!

Just like the incoming mail server, the outgoing mail server requires a name and sometimes may require a username/password.
For example, Gmail's incoming mail server (IMAP) is: imap.gmail.com
The outgoing server for Gmail's mail server (IMAP) is: smtp.gmail.com
Gmail requires you to use a username & password for both the incoming and outgoing mail servers and also that IMAP is enabled in your account preferences.
For a school email, it most likely has POP or IMAP support built-in already. Now, whether or not you have to supply a username/password for outgoing will be determined by your school's IT department.
Do they have some support of IT/Technology support page for students? I'm sure somewhere within the school's intranet there's a support article that explains how to check your school email from a client. You'd just follow the same steps via iPhone's interface.

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