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Email Account Setup on iPhone (iOS 7/8/9/10)

If you still do not have an email account, you can set up one by going to your hosting account’s cPanel.

To configure your email on iPhone (5S, 5C, SE, 6, 6S, 7 or newer), just follow the steps below.

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Go to Settings. iPhone - Settings

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Tap the Accounts & Passwords icon (older versions: Mail).iPhone - Settings - Accounts & Passwords

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Then tap Add Account. iPhone - Settings - Add Account

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Continue with Other. iPhone - Settings - Other

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Tap Add Mail Account. iPhone - Settings - Add Mail Account

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Fill in the email account data.

Name (will appear as sender‘s name)

Email (for example info@mysitename.com)

Password (the email account password)

Description

Continue with NextiPhone - Settings - New Account

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Wait until the email client verifies the data entered (Verifying…).

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Select the IMAP protocol, if it has not been automatically selected. iPhone - Add Mail Account - use - IMAP

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Enter the incoming mail server.

Host Name (name of the hosting server) The server name is the name of the server where your account is hosted.

User Name (full email address)

Password (email account password)

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Fill in the outgoing mail server.

Host Name (name of the hosting server) The server name is the name of the server where your account is hosted.

User Name (Fill in the full email address.)

Password (email account password)

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After completing the data, tap Next.iphone-mail-setup-finish-next-01-1

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Save all your settings by tapping on Save. With this step your email account is fully configured.iphone-add-mail-account-save

Detailed setup for the outgoing mail server

When configuring your outgoing (or incoming) mail server you have two options: to set up a secure connection (SSL) to the mail server or a connection without SSL.

Go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars and tap the email account you added a while ago.

Under Outgoing Mail Server select SMTP and fill in the settings depending on the type of the connection to the server you chose earlier.

SSL connection setup

Host Name: server-name.superhosting.bg

User Name: the full email address (info@mysitename.com)

Password: the email account password

Use SSL: ON (green)

Authentication: Password

Server Port: 587 (or 465)

Setup without SSL

Host Name: mail.mysitename.com

User Name: the full email address (info@mysitename.com)

Password: the email account password

Use SSL: OFF (gray)

Authentication: Password

Server Port: 25 or 26

Important: Replace the server name.superhosting.bg with the name of the server where your account is hosted, for example: opik.superhosting.bg, giga.superhosting.bg… Change mysitename.com to your domain’s name.

After filling in all fields, tap Next and save all settings with Save.

Updated on 18.03.2022
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