How to access your POP3 mailbox with an iPhone
- On your iPhone home screen, tap Settings
- tap Mail, Add Account..., Other, Add Mail Account
- in the Name box, enter your full name (or the name you wish to appear on your emails in the From field)
- in the Address box, enter the email address of the mailbox you wish to login to (for example, to login to the "info" mailbox on the domain "yourdomain.com", enter "info@yourdomain.com" into the Address box)
- in the Password box, enter the password for the mailbox
- tap Save
- in the Incoming Mail Server panel:
- in the Host Name box, enter the hostname of your POP3 server - eg. mail.yourdomain.com
- in the User Name box, enter the username associated with the mailbox - eg. username-yourdomain-com
- in the Outgoing Mail Server panel:
- in the Host Name box, enter the hostname of your SMTP server - eg. mail.yourdomain.com
- in the User Name box, enter the username associated with the mailbox - eg. username-yourdomain-com
- tap Save
Note that those are hyphens in the username. The username is essentially your email address, with the @ sign and all fullstops replaced by hyphens. If your address was joe@bloggs.com, your username would be joe-bloggs-com.
Notes:
- The iPhone uses "SMTP authentication" by default, however unlike a PC, it does not have the option to "use same settings as my POP3 server", therefore the same username and password must be entered twice - once in the incoming mailserver panel, and once in the outgoing server panel.
- The iPhone leaves the mail on the server, it does NOT delete the mail it downloads.
- You must create the mailbox, using the hosting control panel, before you can log into it using your iPhone.
WARNING: As the iPhone does not have a mail filtering feature, you may receive a lot of spam on your iPhone. If this is the case, we recommend you use a device which supports mail filtering, such as a Blackberry.
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