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Setting up POP Email Accounts on Your iPhone

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Last Updated: February 23, 2009 5:12 PM

You can use iTunes® to synchronize email accounts to your iPhone® that you have set up in Mail and Microsoft Entourage on a Mac or Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express on a PC.

You can set up and make changes to an email account directly on your iPhone. Your email service provider can give you the account settings you need to enter. However, changes you make on your iPhone to an email account that you synchronized from your computer are not copied to your computer.

NOTE: Synchronizing an email account to your iPhone copies your email account settings, but does not copy your email messages. Whether the messages in your Inbox display on both your iPhone and your computer depends on the type of email account you have and how it is configured.

Setting Up an Email Account on Your iPhone

  1. If this is the first email account you're setting up on your iPhone, tap Mail. Otherwise, from the Home screen, tap Settings.
  2. On the Settings screen, tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
  3. On the Mail screen, under Accounts, tap Add Account.
  4. On the Welcome to Mail screen, tap Other.
  5. Enter your account information using your keypad.
    Name
    Enter your name as you want it to display on email messages you send.
    Address
    Enter your email address.
    Password
    Enter your password for your email account.
    Description
    Enter a description of this email address. The description displays in your email account list on your iPhone.
  6. Tap Save.
  7. Select POP.
  8. Enter your Incoming Mail Server information.
    Host Name
    Enter pop.secureserver.net.
    User Name
    Enter your full email address as your user name.
    Password
    Enter your password for your email account.
  9. Enter your Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) information.
    Host Name
    Enter smtpout.secureserver.net.
    User Name
    Enter your full email address as your user name.
    Password
    Enter your password for your email account.

    NOTE: The user name and password for your outgoing server is the same as the user name and password you have entered for the incoming server.

Enabling SSL

After completing your iPhone POP setup, we recommend using SSL for your security. For more information about adding SSL, see Enabling SSL on Your iPhone.

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