Accessing Webmail on your iPhone
The iPhone has changed the way people use mobile phones. Users can surf the web, play games and access webmail with a tap of the screen. Emails appear on the devise within moments, allowing people to stay on top of their email inbox from virtually anywhere. Setting up webmail is fairly easy; however, having a few tips can help.
Adding Accounts
Email providers, such as mail2web.com, allow you easy access to email on your iPhone. But, first, you’ll need to setup a webmail account on the iPhone. Tap the “settings” icon on the main iPhone screen. Tap on “Mail” and click “Add an Account.” Then, tap the type of account. For example, if you have a Yahoo account, you would tap that account name.
Adding Hotmail Accounts
Windows Hotmail doesn’t work as seamlessly as other providers. Hotmail users have difficulty deleting emails on the server and can’t use organization folders like other providers.
Setting up Multiple “From” Accounts
The iPhone doesn’t make it easy to set up multiple “from” accounts, but it can be done. Set-up your account as a POP or IMAP account using the “others” tab instead of the traditional “Gmail or Yahoo” tab. Tap the address field under the IMAP account or POP account settings. Tap “select all” from the menu and hit “cut.”
Enter your custom description for the account in the “description” field. Write this description down because you’ll need it later. Then, hit “select all” from the menu choices. Hit the description field one more time and select “paste” from the menu choices.
Type in each “from” email address you want to use (separate them with a comma). Tap on the description field again and hit select all from the menu button again. Select cut from the menu and tap anywhere in the address field. Select paste from the popup menu. After you’re done, hit the “home” button.
Streaming Webmail
After you’ve set up webmail on your iPhone, consider options for reducing the time you spend checking email. Support from ActiveSync allows you to receive instant notifications when messages arrive in your inbox. Having this support will minimize wasted time during your working day.
By Nikki
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This post is super simple to follow along with, very nice. I would probably preface the whole multiple “from” accounts being a pain thing at the beginning though.
Otherwise folks like me might get started and end up shooting themselves in the foot when the get to that section haha
This is really well written.
ActiveSync is a good recommendation to make as well, because honestly any time you can cut from little tasks like this is well worth it.
It lets you trim the fat and be more productive.
I stumbled onto your blog and read a few post. I like your style of writing.
thanks all!! We love hearing from our readers – so please keep the comments and suggestions coming!
I agree about ActiveSync. All those seconds its saves you can really add up at the end of a week.
Any improvements coming to hotmail that might make it more seamless?
Great article! !Thank u so much for putting it together in such a well organized and complete manner.
Maybe I am doing this wrong but i cannot get it to sync my university OWA account with my iphone mail.
When you say “Type in each “from” email address you want to use”, which field should this be in?
I am attempting to do this with IMAP, and you make no mention of the remaining required fields – Incoming/outgoing mail server fields. Could you possible walk me through it givin each individual step, I am finding this incredible frustrating as I by no means a technophobe and I have spent £200 on my iPhone 4 and the least i want is to be notified of incoming email!!
Thanks in advance
Mark