Setting up email on the iPhone

Hi all,
Does anyone know if it is possible in some way to configure the ports for the incoming mail server on the iPhone?
I wish that it was possible to do that since it's not standard and it also uses TLS.
Many thanks for any info!

I don't believe so, but if you are accessing the account with the Mail.app on your Mac, you can transfer the account settings from the Mail.app on your Mac via the iTunes sync process, which is selected under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences.

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How do you set up email on the iPhone?

Updated my iPhone from a 4 to a 4S. I restored from back up but now having a problem with my email where I can receive emails but can't send. When I attempt to send, I get the message "Cannot Send Mail — The user name or password for "SMTP:(my email address)@smtpauth.earthlink.net" is incorrect."
I use the password I've always used to get access to the server via webmail, but this doesn't seem to work. Is there some other credential form I should be using?
Thanks Apple Community for your help.
-Steve

If you start sending an email, then cancel and save it, the iPhone will create a Drafts folder for you. When you send an email, it will create a Sent folder.
There is no way for you to create any other folder other than Inbox, Drafts, Sent and Trash. If you use an IMAP account, you can create folders on your IMAP server, and those will replicate down to your iPhone.

When I set up email for the first time, I had to enter a 4 digit pin. Since then, every time I switch my phone on, I have to enter this pin. How do I remove or bypass the pin so that I can switch on the Iphone without having to first enter a pin?

When I set up email for the first time, I had to enter a 4 digit pin. Since then, every time I switch my phone on, I have to enter this pin. How do I remove or bypass the pin so that I can switch on the Iphone without having to first enter a pin?

Go to Settings>General>Passcode Lock>tap Turn Passcode Lock Off, enter your "pin".
Edit: Are you saying you are getting a prompt for your email pin, or are you talking about the passcode lock that appears when you turn the phone on?

HT201320 how do i set up read receipts for emails from the iphone?

how do i set up read receipts for emails from the iphone?

That is not a feature of the Mail app. Check with your email provider to see if it's a service they offer.

Is there a setting for mail that will allow me to delete emails on the Iphone without being deleted from the mail server? I have Yahoo mail.

Is there a setting in Iphone mail that will allow me delete emails on the Iphone without deleting the emil from the mail server? I want to be able to download the email to other devices. I am using Yahoo mail.

I did not mean actually editing in the PDF, but just copying the text out of the PDF and pasting into indd... or Word.. .or anything. Regardless, just wondering if there was a way to avoid those line breaks.

Setting up email on my iphone

I am setting up email on my iphone. A window came up stating it cannot connect, do I want to try without SSL. I figure from some of the discussion out there I probably need SSL as a security for my iphone. So..now I am at the part where it asks me for my name, email account, password. I have typed that in. A new page shows up with a button for IMAP and one for POP. Under those buttons there are three sections. the first section has my name, email address and a description. The second section is titled Incoming Mail Server displaying HOST name, user name & password. The third section is titledOutgoing Mail Server with the same information as the second section. When I save a window comes up and says this account may not be able to send or received emails. Are you sure you want to save? Before now, I have entered this info several times before I came to you. What is the Host Name? It looks like one should be inbound emails and the other outbound emails. Where do I get the Host name?

Iphones will automatically enter the correct setting when an account is created. delete account and add it back. It will ask for your email addy and password.
walk thru can be found at verizon.com/emailassist

Easily Setting up IMAP for the iPhone

The email client application on the iPhone is a bit lean but it's easy to use. When using POP email it downloads the entire message (and attachments if present). If you get a lot of email this takes time and can really eat up your battery. Also, if travelling outside of the U.S., as I do often, the roaming data charges can be high. Web based email will also be expensive as web pages need to be downloaded onto the iPhone.
IMAP type email lets the email and attachments sit on a remote server and you see only the subect and header in your inbox. When you find something you want to read then you can open it. Attachments are also not downloaded automatically. This saves the amount of data exchanged and your battery and potentially can be much cheaper overseas.
The problem is that not everyone has access to an IMAP email account or service. I currently have three POP accounts. two personal and one for my work. I asked our IT manager if he could activate IMAP on our Exchange server and he said no as he would need to open another port and that is a potential security risk. They do forward my work email to a proxy email account I have so I can read it at home with my non-Outlook computer.
I finally came upon a fairly good solution that I have been testing out. There are several email services available that use IMAP. Some are free and some cost a modest amount. I finally selected FastMail.FM (I believe they are in the U.K.). Their IMAP service has a lot of options available with it and one of which allows you to poll outrside POP accounts. I set up an email account with them and FastMail reads my three POP accounts every 2 hours and dumps them into my IMAP inbox.
I now have only one email account for my iPhone (now IMAP) for my three POP accounts. I find the iPhone in IMAP email mode a little easier to use (if that's possible) and deletion of emails from the iPhone is easier (an edit button will appear in IMAP mode). Attachments are also more stable as it is possible to lose an attachment in POP mode if you don't download a message fully and then try to download it again. I tried email messages with PDF and DOC attachments and everything worked OK.
FastMail also has their own SMTP servers so you won't get into the occasional snafu that occurs when you attempt to use the SMTP server from your own ISP. One thing though, they have four different options available for accounts. "Member" status seems the best ($35/year) as it has large mailbox, storage and data allotments.
I went up to the ATT website to look at data usage and it's truly modest in IMAP mode. Checking email with no new emails appears to be in the 4 to 6 KB area and downloading 20 or so message headers looks like to be in th 15 -20 KB zone. I'll be tracking this over the next few days and I'll post the results.
Mini + iPhone Mac OS X (10.4.10)
Mini + iPhone Mac OS X (10.4.10)
Mini + iPhone Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Two things would solve this problem for 99% of iPhone
users I think:
1) Gmail needs to get IMAP implemented.
There is a simple and elegant solution to the Gmail IMAP problem, and it doesn't require deleting all your outgoing messages as some "solutions" have recommended.
1. Go to http://mail.aol.com/ and sign up for a free AOL email account (which will be [email protected])
2. Log on to your AOL email, go into Settings, and turn the spam filters off
3. Log on to your Gmail account, go into Settings > Forwarding and POP
4. Set your Gmail to "Forward a copy of incoming mail to:" [email protected] (also choose whether you want the original to stay in your gmail inbox or get archived)
5. Set up the email account on your iPhone as follows:
- Type of account: Other > IMAP
- Incoming email account: imap.aol.com (use youraolusername and AOL email password for incoming email)
- Outgoing email account: smtp.gmail.com:587 (use [email protected] and Gmail password)
6. Under Advanced settings, have it delete the messages from the server after downloading them. (Optional, but there's no point in leaving them on the AOL server)
Voila! You get:
1. IMAP access to your Gmail inbox (thru the AOL proxy...don't worry, the emails won't look any different than if you got them straight from gmail)
2. Outgoing emails will be sent through Gmail (nobody has to know the AOL account even exists)
3. Messages sent on your home computer will no longer be downloaded onto your iPhone (since that's a function of POP that's particular to Gmail, and does not occur with IMAP)
4. Sent emails will remain with their threads and do not have to be fished out of the trash if you want to be able to search them later (remember that messages in the Gmail trash are automatically deleted after 30 days)

HT201412 how do I set up email on my iphone 5

how do I set up email on my iphone 5, not able to send or receive mail but everything else is good

Settings>Mail Contacts and Calendars>Add Account
Depends on what type of email you're trying to add though.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4810
If you need to add an "other" type account, the article also has a template for the info you would need from your email provider.

TS3899 Set up email on my iphone 5c and now it is downloading every email I have ever received. Even old emails from months ago, how do I make it stop?

Set up email on my iphone 5c and now it is downloading every email I have ever received. Even old emails from months ago, how do I make it stop?

When creating an antiquated POP account with a new email client, all received email that remains at the incoming mail server is downloaded as new and unread email.

Saving pop3 email to the iphone

It is my understanding that there is no simple way to save an email on the iphone if you are using POP3 email.
(1) If you are using IMAP, then you can set up folders on the server and that works. GMAIL and many other accounts are IMAP and so you can forward email to those accounts and then use IMAP. However, Earthlink does *not* support IMAP, only POP3. Forwarding my Earthlink email to GMAIL seems like a silly cludge to me.
(2) If you really need to save an email, best trick I have heard is to "reply" and then "save as draft" and cancel out. This is also a cludge but should work for the email of your travel documents or other timely information that you need close at hand.
(3) Another trick is to Copy entire text of email and paste to a note. Again, this is a cludge.
ANY BETTER IDEAS???
COMMENT: I will be much happier with iPhone when they pay some serious attention to business folk who need (a) to be able to save email messages locally on the iPhone for quick access; and (b) need to access the "comment" field for long calendar or contact entries (where I often take notes). Both of those features work much better in Android and Blackberry and it is disappointing that Apple does not fix......

Forwarding email through Gmail works beautifully. I have an old Earthlink account that I still get some mail on so I have it pulled through to Gmail. Gmail neatly tags it as having come from the other account. I also have Gmail set so, if I replay, the receipient still sees it as having come from Earthlink. It's as fast as when I was getting the Earthlink email directly. It takes a couple of minutes to set up but I would hardly call it a kludge. Try it. You may find it solves your problems.
Best of luck.

My wife decided to set up her iPhone on my account and now everything is comingled. I want to set up an iTunes account for just me. Do I have to set that up on a computer or can I set it up on the iPhone?

My wife decided to set up her iPhone on my account and now everything is comingled. I want to set up an iTunes account for just me. Do I have to set that up on a computer or can I set it up on the iPhone?

iTunes will need to be set up on your computer however you can set up a new Apple ID to use for your iPhone. Really all you need to do is Assign a new Apple ID to your iCloud account.
Follow the link to create a new Apple ID: https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/
After you do that, on the device you want to assign a new iCloud account go: Settings > iCloud > Delete Account and then sign in with the new Apple ID.
NOTE: This does not effect iTunes, all of your devices can continue to use one shared iTunes account under your original Apple ID for downloading apps and backups. This simply gives iCloud a place to sync the individual devices information and will stop iCloud form merging all the information, such as contacts, with all of your devices.

Can I save an email on the iPhone?

I downloaded some email onto the iPhone. It also downloads onto my Mac. When I delete it from the Mac, it disappears from the iPhone. Is there some way I can download the email from the server to the iPhone and keep it on the iPhone, even after I delete it from the server?

You can save it on your iPhone, depending upon what kind of mail you are interfacing with, and the settings you setup to control how it deals with the mail it pulls down.

TS3899 I can't access my yahoo emails in the email in the iPhone 5c it was working perfectly fine earlier an now it quit

I can't access my yahoo emails in the email in the iPhone 5c it was working perfectly fine earlier an now it quit

I have a similar problem. I was receiving email on my iPhone for months, and then it quit working. When it quit working, I continued to receive emails on my iPad even though the server and port settings were exactly the same between the two devices. I tried deleting and re-adding my email account on the iPhone and restarting my iPhone, but I still couldn't receive email on the device. The only way I could get email to work on my iPhone was to switch to using a POP3 email server (this is the server that my phone auto detected when I re-added my email account) -- the server that was working previously and that is still working on my iPad is an IMAP email server. Since the IMAP server settings continue to work on my iPad, it seems that the problem is with my iPhone and not my email server.
iPhone 5s Version 8.1.3 (12B466)
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HT201320 When I access my email from the iPhone, hit "inbox", the new messages appear briefly, but then just evaporate. I can't find them anywhere - not in inbox, not in junk, trash, saved - nowhere. Can anyone tell me what is happening?

When I access my email from the iPhone, new messages appear only briefly and then immediately disappear, before I do anything. Only old messages that were already in my inbox are visible. I can't find the new messages anywhere -- they have not moved to Saved, Junk, Trash, anything. IT is like the iPhone just ate them. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

If you have a POP3 account this means that another "client" email program has retrieved the messages and deleted the messages from the server. You need to change the server settings on that device to leave the messages on the server.
If you have an IMAP or MS Exchange account this means that someone read the messages on another device and either deleted them or moved them to another folder. Or there is an automated script that moved them to another folder.

Is there some way that emails on the iphone can be automatically be deleted on synching when those emails have been downloaded to my PC?

Is there some way that emails on the iphone can be automatically be deleted on synching when those emails have been downloaded to my PC?

Vatlily,
Try this:
1. Select Mail>File>New Message.
2. Select Mail>Window>Address Panel.
3. Use (command+click) on the desired addressees in the Address Panel to create the list.
4. Click "To:" on the top left of the Address Panel.
The group that you selected will be added to the "To" field in your New Message.

Setting up email on the iPhone

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