These instructions pertain to email being hosting on an SME Linux server using IMAP.
The screenshots below are from an iPhone, but they look similar to the iPad screens.
Before you start, you will need:
- Your email address
- Your user name, which is usually your first name and initial, or sometimes just your first name.
- Your password
- Your server's host name
1. Go to Settings
2. Go to Accounts and Passwords
3. You'll see a list of accounts. At the bottom of this list, you'll see Add Account. Tap this.
4. Tap on Other
5. Tap Add Mail Account
6. Fill in your details on the New Account screen. You should generally use your full name. Use the email address you've been given.
7. Tap Next
8. Under Incoming mail server fill in your details as follows:
Host name has been given to you by one of our team
User name is your user name that you've been given by one of us
Password is as you've been given by us but it should be already filled in
9. As you scroll further down you'll see another heading Outgoing mail server - please fill this in as follows
Host name as given by one of our team (as above)
User name is your user name that you've been given by one of us
Password is as you've been given by us
10. The screen should look something like this
13. Tap on Details
14. Tap Trust on the top right
19. Tap on your email address
20. You should get a screen like this:
21. Tap where it says "SMTP"
22. Tap where it shows your email server
23. Tap where it shows "server port 25" and change it to 465
24. Tap Done, and wait while it says verifying
The final stage is to tell the email program where to put sent mail:
25. Tap on <Account at the top of the screen
26. Tap Advanced at the bottom
27. You should get a screen that looks like this:
(advanced screen)
28. Tap Sent Mailbox
29. (folder list) scroll down to sent folder and tap that (make sure it's ticked)
30. Tap on <advanced at the top
31. Tap on <account at the top
33. Tap Done
- Go to settings then mail, contacts, calendars
- Choose the email account you just set up
- Tap the account name again on the next screen
- Tap Advanced
- Tap Sent Mailbox
- Under the part where it says on the server choose the correct sent folder (either sent-mail or sent)
- Tap <Advanced at the top, then <Account
- Tap Done