Setting IMAP email on your iPhone
If you are looking to take advantage of IMAP ability to sync your emails across mutiple devices such as your mobile phone or pda, while being able to also pick them up from your home or work computer, them IMAP is the way to go:
- http://www.isode.com/whitepapers/pop3-mobiles.html
- http://www.isode.com/whitepapers/imap-idle.html
If you are setting up your email on your iPhone or iPod to access your email via ssl, you may have problems getting the Mail App to accept your usual mail settings. There seems to be some issues with how the iPhone trusts the issued certificate used to encrypt and data sent and received. Namely:
On the iPhone:
- Enter Mail on iPhone/iTouch
- Select "Other..." from list of mail providers
- Enter all account specifics
- Click 'Save' - I get the invalid certificate error
- Click "Cancel' - it returns to settings screen
- Click "Save" again - it says "You may not be able to receive email..."
- Click "Ok"
- Display changes to mail window, loads my messages despite the warning.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5825811
You may also wish to add the word, 'INBOX' as your IMAP path prefix.
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2005/05/02/mailapp-imap-path-prefix-changes/
If you are having problems with your iPhone accepting our certificate (registered with Geotrust), we can email it to you to be installed locally as a trusted certificate. This should help you to make sure that you can check your email securely while out and about on your mobile device.
http://troy.yort.com/self-signed-imap-ssl-certs-on-iphone
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