Use the following steps to configure email for iOS on an iPhone or iPad.
If you have cPanel hosting, make sure you have created an email account first.
- Select the ‘Settings‘ button on the Home screen.
- Click on ‘Mail, Contact, Calendars‘ in the Settings.
- Click on ‘Add Account‘ in the Accounts section
- Choose ‘Other‘ as your email account type
- Select ‘Add Mail Account‘ under the Mail section.
- On the New Account page, enter the following details:
‘Name‘: Name of the account
‘Email‘: The email address for the account, eg. ‘[email protected]’
‘Password‘: Password for the email account.
‘Description‘: Textual description for the accountThen click ‘Next‘. - The device may attempt to retrieve the emails settings for the server. If it fails, continue with the following steps to configure the settings manually.
- Only POP email protocol is supported by our servers.
- After selecting the type of mail account, scroll down and fill in the details for the ‘Incoming Mail Server‘ and ‘Outgoing Mail Server‘.Incoming Mail Server
‘Host Name‘: mail.yourdomain.com
‘Username‘: Your full email address, eg. [email protected]
‘Password‘: The password to your email addressOutgoing Mail Server
‘Host Name‘: mail.yourdomain.com
‘Username‘: Your full email address, eg. [email protected]
‘Password‘: The password to your email address. - Tap on ‘Save‘The device will try to verify the details entered. This process can take a while. You may get a warning saying ‘Cannot Verify Server Identity‘, Click on ‘continue‘.
This completes the configuration of emails on your iPhone/iPad. You will now be able to send emails using your iPhone/iPad. You can verify this by sending an email to yourself.