iPhone Email Series (8)

Configuring your email settings on your iPhone

This tutorial will show you how to configure your email settings on your iPhone.

First, locate and press the Settings icon. It may be on a different screen or in a different location than shown here.

Scroll down…

Then select Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

This is where you can configure all your email settings. Let’s go through some of the more common ones.

Press the Fetch New Data option

If your email service supports Push email, you can enable that feature by turning it on here

Alternatively, you can set your iPhone to Fetch your email at certain intervals… every 15, 30 or 60 minutes… or manually.

Press here to return to the Mail Settings screen

Scroll down…

From here you can choose how many messages to show at one time…

… how many Preview Lines to show…

You can adjust the font size…

… and whether or not to show the To and CC labels.

Enabling this option will send a copy of your sent messages to yourself, if you want to keep a copy of your sent messages elsewhere

You can setup your email signature…

… and choose which email account is to be your default account (if you have more than one)

Just about any setting you could want to change for your iPhone email, can be changed from these screens.

Let’s return to the home screen by pressing the Home button on the iPhone

That’s it! You now know how to configure your email settings on your iPhone.

How to setup an IMAP email account on your iPhone

This tutorial will show you how to setup an IMAP email account on your iPhone.

First, locate and press the Settings icon. It may be on a different screen or in a different location than shown here.

Scroll down…

Then select Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Select Add Account.

Then choose Other.

Press Add Mail Account

Enter the Name, Email address, and Email password of the email account you’re adding.

A Description will automatically appear, but you can change it if you like

When finished, press Next

In this tutorial we are creating an IMAP account… therefore, ensure the IMAP option is selected here.

Next you have to enter your Incoming Mail Server settings… press here…

Then enter the Host Name, User Name and Password for the Incoming Mail Server

Next, enter the Host Name, User Name and Password for the Outgoing Mail Server

When finished, press Next

Then press Save

Success! The IMAP email account has been setup on the iPhone, and you can see it here listed under Accounts

Let’s return to the home screen by pressing the Home button on the iPhone

To check your email, press the Mail icon here (Note: the icon may be in a different location on your iPhone)

If you have multiple email accounts setup in your iPhone, they’ll all be listed here.

Select the email account we just setup…

… and any emails in your inbox will be displayed here.

Click an email header to see the email

That’s it! You now know how to setup an IMAP email account on your iPhone.

How to delete an email account on your iPhone

This tutorial will show you how to delete an email account on your iPhone.

First, locate and press the Settings icon. It may be on a different screen or in a different location than shown here.

Scroll down…

Then select Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Select the email account you want to remove from your iPhone

Then press the Delete Account button here.

Press here to confirm you want to delete the account. Note: Deleting an email account from your iPhone will also remove all messages that were in your iPhone.

That’s it! The email account has been deleted from the iPhone, and it is no longer listed here.

Let’s return to the home screen by pressing the Home button on the iPhone

You now know how to delete an email account from your iPhone.

Setting up your email signature on your iPhone

This tutorial will show you how to setup your email signature on your iPhone.

First, locate and press the Settings icon. It may be on a different screen or in a different location than shown here.

Scroll down…

Then select Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Scroll down…

Select the Signature option

Enter your signature here. It should be something that you want automatically added to the end of the emails you send from your iPhone.

When finished, press the Mail… button to go back

Success! Your new signature has been saved, as you can see here.

Let’s return to the home screen by pressing the Home button on the iPhone

Let’s test the signature… press the Mail icon here (Note: the icon may be in a different location on your iPhone)

Press here to start composing a new email message

There it is! Our signature has automatically been added to the bottom of this email we were about to create.

That’s it! You now know how to setup your email signature on your iPhone.