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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.
To receive push email, you must first set up a Yahoo! account on iPhone.
 www.google.com/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.
For help in setting up email accounts on iPhone, use the online iPhone Mail Setup
Assistant at:
www.apple.com/support/iphone/mailhelper
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!), Google email, .Mac, AOL,
or Other.
3 Enter your account information:
If you’re setting up a Yahoo!, Google email, .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”)