Having trouble setting up your e-mail account?

The mail feature on the iPhone is a rich HTML email client that retrieves your email in the background while you do others things on iPhone. iPhone works with the most popular email systems — including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL, and .Mac Mail — as well as most industry-standard POP3 and IMAP email systems. Mail lets you send and receive photos and graphics, which are displayed in your message along with the text. You can also get PDFs and other attachments and view them on iPhone.

Setting Up Email Accounts

You must have an email address — which looks like " This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it " — to use iPhone for email. If you have Internet access, you most likely got an email address from your Internet service provider.

If you choose automatic syncing during setup, your existing email accounts should be already set up and ready to go. Otherwise, you can set iTunes to sync your email accounts, or configure email accounts directly on iPhone.

Syncing Email Accounts to iPhone

You use iTunes to sync your email accounts to iPhone. iTunes supports Mail and Microsoft Entourage on a Mac, and Microsoft Outlook (2007 or 2003) and Outlook Express on a PC. See article "Syncing iPhone and iPod touch with your computer" for further details.

Note: Syncing an email account to iPhone copies the email account setup, not the messages themselves. Whether the messages in your inbox appear on both iPhone and your computer depends on the type of email account you have and how it’s configured.

If You Don’t Have an Email Account

Email accounts are available from most Internet service providers. If you use a Mac, you can get an email address, along with other services, at www.mac.com. Fees may apply.

Free accounts are also available online:

• www.mail.yahoo.com
  Yahoo! provides free “push” email accounts. With a push email account, email is transferred to iPhone as soon as it is received by the mail server.
• Google Mail
• www.aol.com

Setting Up an Email Account on iPhone

You can set up and make changes to an email account directly on iPhone. Your email service provider can provide the account settings you need to enter.

Changes you make on iPhone to an email account synced from your computer are not copied to your computer.

Enter account settings directly on iPhone

1. If this is the first account you’re setting up on iPhone, tap Mail. Otherwise, from the Home screen choose Settings > Mail > Accounts > Add Account.
2. Choose your email account type: Y! Mail (for Yahoo!), Gmail, .Mac, AOL, or Other.
3. Enter your account information:

   If you’re setting up a Yahoo!, Gmail, .Mac, or AOL account, enter your name, email address, and password. After that, you’re done.

   Otherwise, click Other, select a server type — IMAP, POP, or Exchange — and enter your account information.

   • Your email address
   • The email server type (IMAP, POP, or Exchange)
   • The Internet host name for your incoming mail server (which may look like “mail.example.com”)
   • The Internet host name for your outgoing mail server (which may look like “smtp.example.com”)
   • Your user name and password for incoming and outgoing servers (you may not need to enter a user name and password for an outgoing server)