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If you wish to access email accounts that you’ve created in cPanel using your smartphone, you can either use POP3 or IMAP to do this.
If you use POP3 you can use the same settings as described in article “Setting up an email client on your PC”, if you do this the smartphone will be your primary email client. WHen you download emails to the smartphone they are removed from your webspace and exist only on the smartphone.
You might want to use IMAP on your smartphone, this lets you download emails to your smartphone but they remain on the email account on your webspace for download to your main PC at a later time. To do this, the method of setting up the IMAP client on your smartphone will vary depending on the type of smartphone, but these are the values to use:
– enter the email address and password you used to create the email account in cPanel
– specify a username (usually best to use the email address)
– specify the protocol as IMAP and use IMAP server name
– set security type to “TLS”
– set the port number to 143
For outgoing server settings:
– login is required, use email address and password
– outgoing SMTP server name mail.
– set the port number to 25
– set connection security to “None”
Because outgoing emails (from your smartphone) are sent via SMTP, if you want to keep a copy of these you will need to copy yourself on the email. Your smartphone might have a sending option to always BCC self.