A recent change in the iOS for iPhone and iPad has an impact on the Incoming and Outgoing Port settings for email. It changes the Ports to ones that are incompatible with Clublinks Email.
If you’ve ever tried setting up email addresses with these types of custom settings, you may endure frustration in finding the proper menus in which to apply these settings. The info below will be a great help in pointing you in the right direction.
Setup Instructions for POP\IMAP Accounts in iOS
1. Turn the iPhone/iPad ON and tap Settings on the iPhone home screen.
2. Tap Mail, Contacts, and Calendars.
3. Tap Add Account.
4. Tap Other. Tap Add Account.
5. Enter your POP\IMAP email account settings provided by your Email Hosting Company or Network Administrator.
Name: User’s First and Last name
Address: Full Email Address
Password: Email Account’s password
Description: Account Nick Name
6. Tap Next. Enter the following Mail Server Settings.
Incoming Mail Server
Host Name: mail.clublinks.net.au
User name: Full email address
Password: Email account’s password
Outgoing Mail Server
Host Name: mail.clublinks.net.au
User name: Leave blank
Password: Leave blank
7. iPhone will attempt to verify server settings. If verification fails, tap Continue and proceed to updating advanced server settings.
After successfully (or unsuccessfully) adding an email account to the device’s list of accounts, follow this path to edit the account’s incoming/outgoing server ports:
1. From the IOS Device’s home screen, Tap Settings.
2. Tap Mail, Contacts, and Calendars
3. Tap the Email Account you wish to edit.
4. Tap SMTP under Outgoing Server
5. Tap your Outgoing Server under Primary Server
6. Here you can edit the server port number by tapping the value next to Server Port.
You can also change authentication methods and toggle SSL on/off.
Ensure SSL is off, and port is 25
Incoming Server Settings can be edited by following this path:
1. From the IOS Device’s home screen, Tap Settings.
2. Tap Mail, Contacts, and Calendars
3. Tap the Email Account you wish to edit
4. Tap Advanced
5. Here, you can Edit the Incoming Server Port Number by tapping the value next to Server Port. You can also edit Incoming Server Authentication methods, ensure SSL is off, port is 143 for IMAP, (110 if for POP account), and set message deletion settings.