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How to setup email account in iPhone

Last modified: October 5, 2022
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How to setup email account for iPhone

1. Select Settings from the home screen of your iPhone. 

setup email account in iphone

2. Choose Passwords & Accounts.

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3. Click on Add Account.

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4. Choose Other from appeared list

setup email account iphone

5. Select Add Mail Account

In the New Account menu, you will need to specify the following records:

Name: your name, it will appear as a sender name
Address: your full email address
Password: password of this email address
Description: you can specify any description. But we advise you to specify your email address

setup email account in iPhone

6. Click on Next.

7. Select protocol type: IMAP or POP3. We will show the sample of using IMAP. The selected one will be highlighted in blue.

setup email account in iphone

8. Settings are equal both for IMAP and POP3 on this step:

The fields: Name, Address, and Description should have been already filled in due to your previous setting.

Host Name: mail.yourdomain.com
User Name: your email address.
Password: password for your email.

setup email account in iphone

9. Click on Next.

10.When the check is finished, you will be redirected to IMAP / POP3 settings and click on Save.

setup email account in iphone

11. In order to set up additional settings for mail accounts, you need to return in the previous menu Passwords & Accounts and click on your newly created accounts.

setup email account in iphone

12. Click your newly created account and go to Account Info. Scroll down the screen and select Advanced:

As for the incoming and outgoing Host Name, may use the server hostname

(may find the server hostname from https://intodns.com/ -> MX -> server hostname)

In the below example the server hostname shall be larva.mschosting.com

setup email account in iPhone
setup email account in iPhone

13. You will be able to choose additional settings for IMAP or POP3:

If you set an IMAP connection, you need to use port 993 and toggle SSL while leaving the IMAP Path Prefix field empty.

If you choose the POP3 connection, you need to use port 995 and toggle SSL while leaving the POP3 Path Prefix field empty.

setup email account in iPhone
setup email account in iPhone

14. In order to set up settings for Outgoing Server, you will need to enter the Outgoing Mail Server via clicking on the SMTP setting and then click on Primary Server. Please toggle the Use SSL and ensure that the port used is 465.

setup email account in iPhone

15. Once settings are verified, your account is active and ready to use.

Check this out for further information on how to set up Exchange ActiveSync on the iPhone. You may also get additional information by going to our Knowledge Base.

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