You can send and receive email on your iPhone and access messages in all your OfficeDesktop folders.
1. Go to Settings, then Mail, Contacts, Calendar. Click Add Account...
2. Choose Other and enter the following information:
- Name: enter your name here
- Address: enter your full email address (e.g. jsmith@alfabeta.com)
- Password: enter the password you use when logging to your account online (this is case sensitive field)
- Description: enter a brief description of the account so you can easily recognize it
- Click Save
3. Details of the account should show up. Please make sure that IMAP (as opposed to POP) is highlighted on top of the screen.
4. Enter the following information in the Incoming Mail Server:
- Host Name: imap.odmailbox.com
- User Name: enter full email address again (e.g. jsmith@alfabeta.com)
- Password: enter the password you use when logging to your account online (this is a case sensitive field)
5. Enter the following information in the Outgoing Mail Server:
- Host Name: mail.odmailbox.com
- User Name: enter full email address again (e.g. jsmith@alfabeta.com)
- Password: enter the password you use when logging to your account online (this is a case sensitive field)
- Click Save
6. iPhone will try to verify IMAP account information, which may take a minute.
- You should get an error: "Cannot Connect Using SSL. Do you want to try setting up account without SSL?"
- Click NO
- Tap Save again. On the confirmation popup This account may not be able to send or receive emails. Are you sure you want to save? Confirm Save.
7. You should be back in the main Mail, Contacts, Calendar screen. Tap the name of the account again. Scroll down to Outgoing Mail Server. SMTP should say mail.odmailbox.com. Tap the little arrow next to it. Primary server should say mail.odmailbox.com - On. Tap the arrow next to it. Confirm that the information entered is correct:
- Server: On
- Host Name: mail.odmailbox.com
- User Name: your full email address (e.g. jsmith@alfabeta.com)
- Password: correct password
- Use SSL: OFF
- Authentication: Password
- Server Port: 25 (Note: Some providers block port 25. If you are unable to send messages through port 25, change this port to 587)
8. Go back to the account settings. Scroll down and tap Advanced on the bottom of the screen. Change the following information:
- In Incoming Settings tap Use SSL to turn it OFF
- Change Server Port to 143
9. Exit Settings and go to your Mail. Your new account should be visible there. Tap it to enter. iPhone will check for new messages and pull all your online mail folders.
10. Last step is to adjust the iPhone's Mailbox Behaviors for messages deleted, drafted and sent from iPhone.
- Go to Settings, tap Mail, Contacts, Calendar, select the account and go to Advanced.
- Go to Mailbox Behaviors section and do the following:
- Tap Drafts Mailbox. Scroll and find Drafts folder in the three under On the server. Go back, On the Server should be visible next to Drafts Mailbox
- Tap Sent Mailbox. Select Sent folder in On My iPhone section. Go back, On My iPhone should be visible next to Sent Mailbox
- Tap Deleted Mailbox. Select Trash folder in On My iPhone section. Go back, On My iPhone should be visible next to Deleted Mailbox
You can go to the main screen and tap Mail icon in your iPhone to see your messages.
