Chapter 32. Setting Up an Email Account

The iPhone is all about staying in touch with people, via phone calls or text messaging, for example. One of the most popular ways to communicate with others is through email messages.

You can send and receive email messages from your existing email accounts using your iPhone, but before you'll be able to do so, you'll need to configure your email account to work with your iPhone.

You can set up any type of email account to work with your iPhone. However, your iPhone already knows how to connect to the following types of email accounts, so they're the easiest to set up:

  • AOL

  • Gmail

  • Yahoo! Mail

  • Microsoft Exchange

  • MobileMe

Note

If you need to set up an email account that iPhone doesn't already support, you may need to ...

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