The iPhone is quickly becoming a great business communication tool, with people now using their iPhone for much more than a mobile phone.

Many busy people now like having the versatility to have all their email accounts accessible on their iPhone as well.
While setting up a Microsoft exchange, Gmail,Yahoo or AOL account is very simple, Apple don’t provide details telling you how to set up a hosted email account for your own domain name.

So here are the 7 very easy steps to set your email account up on your iPhone in a matter of just a few minutes:

Step 1.
Click on the Settings App and scroll down to Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Step 2.
Click on Add Account.
Yes, it’s very easy so far…!

Step 3.
Now, if you are setting up your own hosted email account (eg, name@yourwebaddress.com), click on Other.

Step 4.
Click on the first tab under Mail > Add Mail Account

Step 5.
Now you create a new account, by entering your own name or the business name, your Address (email address), your Password provided by your hosting provider and a Description for your own reference. When you have a bunch of accounts running on your iPhone, the Description is very useful.

Step 6.
Now you will need to enter the technical details.
First up click whether it is an IMAP account or a POP account.
Most web hosting providers run a POP server, so click on POP so that the POP tab is blue
Your name, address etc should already be on the screen, but if not, add it again.

Step 7.
Now, add your Incoming Server details. This is the mail server for your hosted domain, so if your domain is called www.something.com then your mailserver will be either mail.something.com or smtp.something.com
Add your username and password. Most times your username is your full email address and the password is the one assigned by your web hosting company for that email account.
If you’re not sure give them a call.

Your Outgoing Mailserver is usually the same as your incoming mailserver, or it might be allocated by your phone company. Try adding your incoming server details first and if that fails, contact your phone/internet provider.

If you have followed each of those steps your email account should now be running fine on your iPhone!

Author: Chris Bourke of WebSEOCoach.com and Devision Design