To create an iPhone email account, go to the iPhone Settings, tap the Mail item. This will take you to the main Mail preference. Under a list of current accounts, you will also see categories for Message and Sending. Probably best to set those up first.
- The first setting is for Auto-Check. This is how often mail is checked, even if you don’t access your Mail program. You can set it for Every 15 minutes, Every 30 minutes or Every hour. You can also set it to Manual. When you set it to Manual, email will be checked every time you enter the inbox for the email account in the Mail program.
- The Show setting lets you set not only how many messages you see at once, but how many are downloaded from the server. For instance, if you set it to 50 Recent Messages, you will need to tap a “Download More” link at the bottom of the message list to get more than 50.
- The Preview setting lets you select how many lines of an email are shown in the message list
- The Minimum Font Size setting lets you make the text in messages larger or smaller.
- The Show To/Cc Label setting determines whether recipients are shown by default when viewing a message. You can always show or hide this while viewing.
- The Ask Before Deleting setting gives you one more chance to cancel deleting an email before it is gone.
- There are also some choices under the Sending category.
- Always Bcc Myself lets you choose to have a copy of any message you send be sent to yourself as well.
- The Always Bcc Myself option is very handy if you want to have a copy of every email you send saved in your Sent folder on your Mac. If you don’t use it, then an email you send from your iPhone won’t exist at all on you computer. But by sending yourself a copy of the message, you can then get it on your Mac and move it to your “Sent” folder there, so you can refer to it later.
- The Signature setting lets you enter some text that will appear automatically at the bottom of every email message you compose.
- The default account determines which account is used when sending a new message. You can change it while composing.