I'm trying to setup an IMAP email account on my iPhone, but not using Gmail or Yahoo. This account will use my own web hosting service, who hosts my business website. The web hosting company and service does support IMAP email. They give the specific details on account settings for configuring each type of setup supported (IMAP, POP3).
NOTE: Some prerequisite reading on what I have done, and what I already have working. I already have an IMAP account with Gmail on my iPhone, and it's working perfectly. I also have a POP email account using my web hosting provider, and it is also working perfectly. Both of these working via my iPhone, and on my MacBook Pro via Mail.app (v3.3, or OS X 10.5.3). The IMAP for Gmail works perfect. The POP3 works, although obviously it's not synchronized. I leave the POP3 settings at 'leave on server' for the iPhone, and 'download' on my Mac (mail.app). If my laptop is off, I can see all the new emails on the iPhone, and then retrieve later.
So, I also have several email addresses related to my business, specific to ordering, customer support, etc. I've converted one of these (as a test) in Mail.app to start using IMAP to my email and hosting. It's working fine via Mail.app. But, the account I've created on my iPhone (I've tried several different times, just to make sure I'm typing everything correctly) won't retrieve anything. It does confirm the settings (and never reports any errors) as I finish creating the account.
iPhone is v1.1.4 (jailbroken/unlocked via PWN, but that doesn't/shouldn't affect email).
I've done A LOT of searching on the web yesterday and today (several website forums specifically, and via Google), and not come up with anything helpful, or anyone setting this type of situation up.
Anyone had success setting up IMAP email on the iPhone, other than to Yahoo or Gmail? Can you help share the process, or point to a website/thread somewhere? Or, if this is a redundant post, just point me to the thread search here that I missed.
Oh....and I've seen some people using the .mac (or the new @me.com service coming in July) in various ways to accomplish this via forwarding or email aliases....but that's a 'band aid' fix in my opinion. Already have (and pay for) a web server and business up and running capable of doing IMAP natively. Just trying to make the iPhone talk to it just like my MacBook Pro and Mail.app is already doing.
Thanks for reading, and hopefully helping!
NOTE: Some prerequisite reading on what I have done, and what I already have working. I already have an IMAP account with Gmail on my iPhone, and it's working perfectly. I also have a POP email account using my web hosting provider, and it is also working perfectly. Both of these working via my iPhone, and on my MacBook Pro via Mail.app (v3.3, or OS X 10.5.3). The IMAP for Gmail works perfect. The POP3 works, although obviously it's not synchronized. I leave the POP3 settings at 'leave on server' for the iPhone, and 'download' on my Mac (mail.app). If my laptop is off, I can see all the new emails on the iPhone, and then retrieve later.
So, I also have several email addresses related to my business, specific to ordering, customer support, etc. I've converted one of these (as a test) in Mail.app to start using IMAP to my email and hosting. It's working fine via Mail.app. But, the account I've created on my iPhone (I've tried several different times, just to make sure I'm typing everything correctly) won't retrieve anything. It does confirm the settings (and never reports any errors) as I finish creating the account.
iPhone is v1.1.4 (jailbroken/unlocked via PWN, but that doesn't/shouldn't affect email).
I've done A LOT of searching on the web yesterday and today (several website forums specifically, and via Google), and not come up with anything helpful, or anyone setting this type of situation up.
Anyone had success setting up IMAP email on the iPhone, other than to Yahoo or Gmail? Can you help share the process, or point to a website/thread somewhere? Or, if this is a redundant post, just point me to the thread search here that I missed.
Oh....and I've seen some people using the .mac (or the new @me.com service coming in July) in various ways to accomplish this via forwarding or email aliases....but that's a 'band aid' fix in my opinion. Already have (and pay for) a web server and business up and running capable of doing IMAP natively. Just trying to make the iPhone talk to it just like my MacBook Pro and Mail.app is already doing.
Thanks for reading, and hopefully helping!