
Click the radio button next to Other Mail Account… then select Continue. In the menu bar at the top of the screen, select Mail > Add account.Ī panel will open, asking you to choose a Mail account provider.


Alternatively, use Spotlight to search for “mail”. Open Apple Mail from the Dock, using the stamp icon. If you wish to retain a copy of your emails on the server, you should configure an IMAP email account, rather than POP3. When you use POP3, your emails are downloaded to your local computer and deleted from the server. POP3 (Post Office Protocol) is an older method of retrieving emails from a mail server, but works well for many users. This article is written for our Basic & Advanced Email services, however, same settings apply for shared hosting email account setup and all you need to replace is hostname with (replace with your actual domain).

Need more help? Watch our tutorial on setting up POP email accounts in cPanel. (This is the best trick I’ve learned about in iOS Mail in years, and a big hat tip to this 2015 article at TapSmart, that explains it in terms of deleting all messages in a folder.Once you’ve configured and activated your HostPapa email service, you can proceed to set up your POP3 email account in Apple Mail. It’s easy if you use a set of actions that Apple doesn’t document, but will save you an enormous amount of time-you don’t have to select each message individually. However, you can move all this email to an IMAP-supporting email account. This has left a gap for people either using POP3 or local storage for some of their IMAP special folders because if you have a sudden device failure, need to restore a phone or tablet from a backup, or want to migrate from one device to another, this locally stored email is lost. (See Settings > Passwords & Accounts > your mail account > Account > Advanced, and tap any item under Mailbox Behaviors.)

You can opt to configure iOS so that any or all of your Drafts, Deleted, and Archive folders are stored locally on a device. Mail largely remains on the server, with some exceptions.
