iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
This page explains how to set up the Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to send and receive e-mail. (You must have first created the mailbox on our servers.)
The pictures below are from the iPhone 5 setup screens, but the iPad and iPod Touch screens are very similar. (If you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch that’s still running version 4 of the iOS operating system, you should view our iOS 4 page instead.)
1. Go to the mail setup screen.
From the main screen, tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account. This makes the new account screen appear.
2. Choose the “Other” account type.
Tap Other at the bottom of the new account screen:
This makes the “Other” screen appear.
3. Choose “Add Mail Account”.
Tap Add Mail Account:
This makes the “New Account” screen appear.
4. Enter the basic account information.
These instructions are generic examples. Please enter your e-mail address in the box at the top of this page to see the correct settings.
Type the following settings:
| Name: | your full name, such as Steve Jobs |
| Address: | your e-mail address |
| Password: | your e-mail password |
| Description: | your e-mail address |
The screen should look similar to this:
When you’re finished, tap Next in the upper-right corner of the screen.
5. Enter the remaining account information.
These instructions are generic examples. Please enter your e-mail address in the box at the top of this page to see the correct settings.
Leave IMAP selected at the top of the screen, then type the following settings under “Incoming Mail Server”:
| Host Name: | mail.tigertech.net |
| User Name: | your e-mail address |
| Password: | your e-mail password (this should already be entered from step 4) |
And the same settings under “Outgoing Mail Server”:
| Host Name: | mail.tigertech.net |
| User Name: | your e-mail address |
| Password: | your e-mail password (this should already be entered from step 4) |
The screen should look similar to this:
Some things to bear in mind:
- The “User Name” in both sections must be all lowercase.
- It’s correct for the “Incoming Mail Server” and “Outgoing Mail Server” settings to be identical.
- The passwords you enter here must be the e-mail mailbox password (which is not necessarily the same as your master account password).
When you’re finished, tap Next in the upper-right corner of the screen.
6. Finish the setup.
A screen that looks like this will appear:
Leave the settings like that, then tap Save in the upper-right corner of the screen.
The steps above are sufficient for basic e-mail. You can check your e-mail to make sure it’s working at this point: Press the Home button to return to the main screen, then tap the Mail icon.
Setting up folders (optional but recommended)
You probably also want to make sure your iPhone stores sent, deleted and draft messages on the mail server. This will allow you to see those messages if you also use Webmail (or another IMAP mail program) to read the mailbox.
7. Set up Drafts, Sent and Trash folders.
First, make sure you’ve read incoming mail on your iPhone at least once. Then return to the mailbox settings page by going back to the iPhone home screen and tapping Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > address@cohousing.org.
You’ll see an “Account Info” screen. Tap Account Info:
Now you’ll see a screen that looks similar to the one you just typed your settings into, but if you scroll down to the very bottom, you’ll find a new Advanced item. Tap Advanced:
You’ll see a section titled “Mailbox Behaviors”. We want to change all three “behaviors”, so first, tap Drafts Mailbox:
That makes the “Mailboxes” screen appear:
Tap Drafts from the “On the Server” section, as shown in blue above. This saves that setting and returns you to the “Mailbox Behaviors” screen.
Repeat the same steps for the “Sent Mailbox” (choosing Sent on the server) and the “Deleted Mailbox” (choosing Trash on the server). When you’ve finished, the “Mailbox Behaviors” should look like this:
You’re finished!
Your iPhone can now send and receive e-mail.
By the way, if you ever need to return to these screens and view or edit the settings of an existing account, you can tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > address@cohousing.org at any time.
Troubleshooting
After following these instructions, some people tell us they don’t see some messages they expect, or that older messages disappear after they’ve seen them.
This will happen if you have another mail program checking the same mailbox, and the other program is set to delete messages immediately. Changing the settings on the other program to make it leave a copy of the messages on the servers will fix that.
What if I want to use POP3 instead of IMAP?
We recommend IMAP because if you use IMAP everywhere, it shows you the same “view” of your mailbox on both your desktop computer and phone.
However, if you prefer the older POP3 connection method for some reason, that works fine, too. Just choose “POP” instead of “IMAP” in step 5, then ignore step 7 about setting up IMAP folders. Everything else is identical.