How To Set Up Email On iPod Touch or iPhone
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I looked around for a while in lots of different places and couldn’t find any tutorials that told you how to set up a mail account that is privately hosted, with your iPod Touch or iPhone. This gave me a perfect opportunity to be the first one to teach everyone that doesn’t know. So if you have been wondering how to do this, keep reading, because I think I can help.
For this tutorial you don’t need to have it be jailbroken. First get out your iPhone or iPod Touch and make sure you have the mail application already installed. Then go to settings and mail. Choose add account and pick other. Now you need to open up your mail client with your privately hosted mail account in it.
For me this program is Outlook Express so if you’re running anything else you will just have to try and follow along.
If you are using Outlook Express, then go to Tools, then Accounts. Find your account you want for your iPod Touch and select it. Once this is done, just click on the properties button. Click on the servers tab and at teh top it should say, “My incoming mail server is”. Whatever it says after that is the tab you are going to click on your iPhone / iPod Touch.
Now, back on your iPod Touch, fill in the name and address blanks. To find your host name go back to your computer and under the servers tab again take whats in the incoming mail spot and put that in the host name blank on your iPod Touch.
Now for the username and password, to find these look under the servers tab again and in the middle there should be a spot that says account and password. Take those and put those in the user name and password blanks on your iPod Touch.
Now last, but not least the host name that is under outgoing mail server (SMTP). For this just look right under where you got the other host name that was for the incoming mail server. Just take that and fill it in on the iPod Touch. Leave the last username and password blank and click save in the top right corner. This may take a while and might come up with some kind of error. If it does, be sure to check for misspellings. If it says cannot connect using SMTP click try without and when its done just send a test email to that address and check it on your iPod Touch / iPhone. If it shows up then your good to go. If it doesn’t just let me know and I’ll try to walk you through it.
If you can’t figure out how to make a mail account for an email that is hosted by Yahoo or Google or something else, leave a comment and let me know if I should make another post on how to do that. I didn’t originally make one on that because there are already plenty out there, but I would be happy to make one anyway!
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23 Comments
James
December 4th, 2008
at 3:10pm
Uhm you should probably tell them that you pick other under da choices not yahoo or gmail or other stuf
Abou Hashem
December 13th, 2008
at 1:09pm
i can’t send any e-mails from my account at yahoo or hotmail from my ipod touch
plz help
thanks
Leah
January 3rd, 2009
at 6:18am
I can’t find in my hotmail where to link it to my iPod touch
Jake
January 7th, 2009
at 10:48pm
My iPod can’t send any emails or receive emails from yahoo which I use. Please help!
A new IPod touch user
January 10th, 2009
at 10:51am
In my enthusiasm to start using my IPod touch, I configured it to use my gmail account, which was one of the listed mail services. However, it is not my primary account. How do I undo it and get to access my hotmail account. Thanks in advance!
Daniel
January 24th, 2009
at 12:47am
I want to know how to set up a hotmail account on my iPod
Jennifer
February 5th, 2009
at 9:02am
Thank You!!! I could not send emails on my iPod touch, but could receive them. I had tried following other advice found through search but couldn’t get it fixed until I found this page. I had a username and password on the outgoing server and when I removed it…it works! Thanks again!
chris
February 19th, 2009
at 1:54pm
this doesnt work for me, i can receive emails, but not send them, i triple checked all info, there is nothing wrong …what have i missed?
i am able to send and receive with my hotmail account on my ipod touch, but not with outlook express?
plz help
Obw
March 9th, 2009
at 7:23am
How do you set up a hotmail account on the iPod touch. It keeps telling me the pop server is not responding
Jennifer Ramsay
March 9th, 2009
at 12:36pm
I have tried this about 30 times and it still comes up with cannot connect, check the incoming server field.
I ahve called o2 and they have talked me through it and my ISP ( Orange) and done everything CORRECT………
I am losing the will to live!
I had my iphone since september last year and a couple of week ago it had to go in for repair. They sent me a brand new one and since then I can get my Gmail account no problem but I cannot get my Orange account.. Help.
Jennifer
devesh
April 26th, 2009
at 8:34pm
hey i am in India and i wana know if i need to do some kinda customization for the ipod touch. i am planning to buy from US.
plz help asap
ipod touch user
May 2nd, 2009
at 5:58pm
i have tried to set up my yahoo account on my ipod touch many many many times but it always says ‘username or password incorrect’. i know it isn’t because i have tried many times and entered the right info. can you help me please???
thanks
JT
May 14th, 2009
at 6:21pm
Hi, I get the same errors on my yahoo set up. The time/date is accurate. it just isn’t won’t set up.
Neal
May 19th, 2009
at 1:42pm
Same problem as one above
IsaM
June 7th, 2009
at 6:38pm
Hi dude nice post!! but i’m still having probrems here
1. I can’t sign in to my email accounts directly from my itouch 2nd generation..the error message is ” the connection to the outgoing server “smtp.aol.com” failed”
2. I can’t sign in to aol mail from safari it says if my aol account is invalid,I have tried it 10 -100 times but still can’t..But when I tried in my laptop it’s working
Pls help me I really need it when I’m not at my desk…
Tan
June 15th, 2009
at 10:51pm
HOTMAIL!!!
b
July 20th, 2009
at 6:42pm
ok, was able to get the email sending & receiving, but when I’m finished using yahoo on my ipod touch, there’s no logout option. Any suggestions.. or am I missing something?
Thanks!
Tay
August 3rd, 2009
at 8:03pm
HELP!! I’ve had my iPod for two years now and have no clue how to set up a live account PLEASE HELP!!!
stacy
August 15th, 2009
at 8:05am
I have hughesnet as my isp and i cant set it up on my ipod?
Ivan
August 24th, 2009
at 6:20pm
Hi, I am trying to configure my 2G iPod Touch to use Yahoo! Mail. I’ve entered the Host names for Incoming and Outgoing mail as per the settings provided by Yahoo! But what do I enter under “IMAP Path Prefix”? From where and how can i get this IMAP Path Prefix? Thanks.
Emerald
August 27th, 2009
at 9:56am
I am trying to use my hotmail account.. It let’s me recieve emails but not send them I have re done my email at least 20 times it’s not working… What can I so to make it work?
Kawthar
September 16th, 2009
at 5:10pm
How can I make email in ipod touch !!
aliya
September 19th, 2009
at 1:00pm
i set up an email on there and it doesnt work so i want to try another one and it doesnt even have the (add another account) button on there…ahhhh