How to setup email mailbox on iPhone/iPad

If you would like to setup your email account on your iPhone or iPad follow the instructions below.

  1. Go to Settings on your device
  2. Scroll to Mail, Contacts, Calendars
  3. Tap Add Account
  4. Choose Other
  5. Choose Add Mail Account
  6. Enter your name - This is what appears in your recipient inboxes
  7. Enter your email address - This is also your login username
  8. Enter your email password - set when the mailbox was created
  9. Enter a description - This is used to identify your email account on the device
  10. In the incomming mail settings enter the following
    1. Hostname - This is your mail server address, if you have a hosting account with us it will be in the format of mail.YOURDOMAIN.com
    2. Username - This is your email address
    3. Password - Should  be prefilled from the previous step
  11. Outgoing mail server
    1. Hostname - Same as incoming host name
    2. Username - Same as incoming username
    3. Password - Same as password entered on step 8
  12. Tap Next - This will verify all the mail server settings are correct, you may be alerted that your device can't verify the identity of your mail server. If this occurs click Continue
  13. If the verify finished successfully you will be taken to a final step to enable the mail account and to enable Notes on the account. If you wish to save your notes from the Notes app on as a backup in your emails you can turn this setting on. Otherwise just Save the page to finalise the account.
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