Primary email account disappeared

Hello --
I set up my two email accounts shortly after buying my iPhone six days ago and they've been working fine. Until this evening, when I discovered that my primary account simply vanished. I'm quite certain I didn't go into Settings, then scroll down to Mail, then tap that account and hit the big red "delete" button.
Apologies for being snarky, but I've spent an hour trying to get it back online again (to no avail), will now be without access to my email all day tomorrow and I really don't want this to happen again. Any ideas on how to ensure it doesn't get nuked in the future?
Many thanks,
Sean

I've never heard of or experienced an email account on the iPhone just disappearing but it sounds as if that's what happened to you. I'm assuming this is not a company phone using an Exchange account?
Try resetting your iPhone by pressing the home and sleep buttons until you see the Apple logo, ignoring the slider. Takes about 5-15 secs of button holding and you won't lose any data or settings.
Then try setting up the account.
If this doesn't work, you can try to restore from your backup but you'll likely need to restore as new.

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