Advanced Mail Settings On Your Ipad or Iphone
Ipad and Iphone users regularly run into difficulties when trying to set up their own domain email accounts in iOS devices.
With your own domain, the settings may be quite different to what the iOS device "thinks" is the correct setting. Finding where to change specific settings can be a headache.
Hopefully the following info will help you check all the settings available and allow you to painlessly check you own domain emails with out any difficulty
These are the generic settings required (you may have to search Google for a more specific steps required for your particular device but these should be enough to get you going)
1. Turn the iPhone/iPad ON and tap Settings on the iPhone home screen.
2. Tap Mail, Contacts, and Calendars.
3. Tap Add Account.
4. Tap Other. Tap Add Account.
5. Enter your POP email account settings provided by Host Me Plus
Name: User’s First and Last name
Address: Full Email Address
Password: Email Account’s password
Description: Account Nick Name
6. Tap Next. Enter the following Mail Server Settings.
Incoming Mail Server
Host Name: [your domain].com
User name: Full email address
Password: Email account’s password
Outgoing Mail Server
Host Name: [your domain].com
User name: Full email address
Password: Email Account’s password
7. iPhone will attempt to verify server settings. If verification fails, tap Continue and proceed to updating advanced server settings
After successfully (or unsuccessfully) adding an email account to the device’s list of accounts, follow this path to edit the account’s incoming/outgoing server ports:
1. From the IOS Device’s home screen, Tap Settings.
2. Tap Mail, Contacts, and Calendars
3. Tap the Email Account you wish to edit.
4. Tap SMTP under Outgoing Server
5. Tap your Outgoing Server under Primary Server
6. Here you can edit the server port number by tapping the value next to Server Port. You can also change authentication methods and toggle SSL on/off.
Incoming Server Settings can be edited by following this path:
1. From the IOS Device’s home screen, Tap Settings.
2. Tap Mail, Contacts, and Calendars
3. Tap the Email Account you wish to edit
4. Tap Advanced
5. Here, you can Edit the Incoming Server Port Number by tapping the value next to Server Port. You can also edit Incoming Server Authentication methods, toggle SSL on/off, and set message deletion settings.
Hopefully this will have everything up and running