Comments on: Exchange / Push email on the Apple iPhone

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:24:32 +0000

Not on Fasthosts, but I have an iPhone happily doing IMAP to 3 different accounts (2 of them GMail). It doesn’t do push e-mail via IDLE but I can live with that for the moment…

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:43:05 +0000

Matt,

I’ve got this working as POP as you mention but this is a poor shadow of IMAP, and ever poorer than Activesync to Exchange (coming in iPhone firmware v2).

Has anyone got the iphone to do at least IMAP properly for now?

I spoke to Fasthosts buy they said the normal IMAP settings should work on an iphone (which I agree with, but they don’t seem to).

Thanks

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By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:19:18 +0000

ok people – use the above setting but set up as pop

so on thje other screen when you set mail accounts up you have the choice of

imap – pop – exchange

just put in the setting from my last post into the pop tat and boom all working

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:15:58 +0000

Please can you verify the settings used to connect to the fasthosts server,

are you using the imap, pop,or exchange tab?

i have tried all threee, i can make a mac aconnect but not an iphone

Any more advice would be great

Server : exchange.livemail.co.uk

Username : robin.bright@*****.co.uk

Password : as per exchange account

Outgoing Server : smtp.livemail.co.uk

Username : robin.bright@*****.co.uk

Password : as per exchange account

Set outgoing mail authentication to yes.

Using SSL to connect

By: Eliot

Eliot — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:08:56 +0000

Me too! Have tried setting up my Fasthosts Exchange account using the IMAP form but no luck yet…

By: Oliver Yeates

Oliver Yeates — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:29:54 +0000

Love to know how to get it working on Fasthosts exchange mail boxes?

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:30:02 +0000

Hi Dan,

Could you elaborate a little further on setting up your fasthost email on the iPhone.

Did you have to tweak any advance settings, get them to change anything and what did you use for the server addresses?

Many thanks,

Brendan

By: Ewan

Ewan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:31:13 +0000

Sure thing Tim — simply set it up as you would a normal IMAP account and it should work perfectly fine!

By: tim rodgers

tim rodgers — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:31:36 +0000

Hi;
we are unable to get iPhone and fasthosts exchange server to talk; tried all the various settings with no joy; can you please elaborate on the process?

Thanks

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The Big Website » Exchange / Push email on the Apple iPhone — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:13:26 +0000

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By: Dan Lane

Dan Lane — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:36:23 +0000

Based on the recommendation of someone in the comments on this very blog I’ve stopped using Good and have been using a ZimbraCS solution from SimplyMailSolutions.com.

Zimbra has excellent support for Exchange Push (so you can use Nokia’s Mail For Exchange) as well as a sync service for OSX as well as support for IMAP and POP3.

Since we all know Nokia’s mail client is utter pap I’ve been using Mail For Exchange to sync my phone’s contacts and calendars with the server and Profimail to read my mail over IMAP (it just checks for new mail every 5 mins… not exactly push but it works). The iPhone syncs my address book and calendar when I dock it and mail is downloaded OTA via IMAP and My desktop runs the Zimbra sync agent and Thunderbird downloads my mail via IMAP.

What I end up with is three different mail accounts, calendars and contacts lists, three nokia handsets, one iPhone and two desktops that are all syncing in perfect harmony (except the iPhone which needs a quick dock to get contacts and calendars)

it’s not the most elegant of solutions and it won’t suit everybody but neither Good nor BlackBerry handle multiple accounts in any sensible form!

Also, as I’ve found out this morning, the support at SimplyMS is far superior than that of Fasthosts!