Your email should follow you around, not sit trapped on the office desktop. Setting up a hosted mailbox on a phone is quick once you have the server details ready. Here’s how to do it on both iPhone and Android.
What you’ll need
- Your full email address, e.g.
sales@yourdomain.com - The mailbox password (the one from cPanel)
- Incoming/outgoing server:
mail.yourdomain.com - IMAP port 993 (SSL), SMTP port 465 (SSL)
iPhone (iOS)
- Open Settings → Mail → Accounts → Add Account.
- Tap Other, then Add Mail Account.
- Enter your name, email address, password and a description, then tap Next.
- Make sure IMAP is selected at the top.
- Under both Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server, set the host name to
mail.yourdomain.com, and enter your full email as the username plus your password. - Tap Next. iOS verifies the settings and saves the account.
If verification hangs, it’s usually SSL. Go into the account’s advanced settings and confirm Use SSL is on and the IMAP port reads 993.
Android (Gmail app)
- Open the Gmail app, tap your profile icon, then Add another account.
- Choose Other.
- Enter your full email address and tap Manual setup, then pick Personal (IMAP).
- Enter your password.
- Set the incoming server to
mail.yourdomain.com, security SSL/TLS, port 993. - Set the outgoing server to the same host, security SSL/TLS, port 465, with Require sign-in ticked.
A note on the certificate warning
If your SSL certificate hasn’t finished issuing for mail.yourdomain.com yet, your phone may warn about the certificate name. Rather than accepting an insecure connection, use your server’s hostname (from your welcome email) as the mail server — the certificate always matches that, so the warning disappears.
Set it up once with IMAP and every message you read, file or send stays in sync across your phone, laptop and webmail. That’s the whole point.
