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Now you land on the account-information screen. Tap into each of the four
blanks and, when the keyboard appears, type your name, email address,
account password, and a description (that one’s optional). Tap Save.
Your email account is ready to go!
If you don’t have one of these free accounts, they’re worth having, if only as a
backup to your regular account. They can help with spam filtering, too, since the
iPhone doesn’t offer any; see page 154. To sign up, go to Google.com, Yahoo.com,
AOL.com, or Mac.com.
POP3, IMAP, and Exchange Accounts
Those freebie, Web-based accounts are super-easy to set up. But they’re not
the whole ball of wax. Millions of people have one of these more commercial,
corporate email accounts, perhaps supplied by their employers or Internet
providers:
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POP accounts are extremely common on the Internet. (It stands for Post
Office Protocol, but this won’t be on the test.)
A POP server transfers your incoming mail to your computer (or iPhone)
before you read it, which works ne as long as you’re using only that
machine to access your email.
IMAP accounts (Internet Message Access Protocol) are newer and have
more features than POP servers, but aren’t as common. IMAP servers
keep all of your mail online, rather than making you store it on your
computer; as a result, you can access the same mail regardless of the
computer (or phone) you use. IMAP servers remember which messages
you’ve read and sent, too. (Those free Yahoo email accounts are IMAP
accounts, and so are Apple’s .Mac accounts.)
One downside to this approach, of course, is that you can’t delete your
email—or read it for the rst time—unless you’re online, because all of
your mail is on an Internet server. Another disadvantage is that if you
don’t conscientiously manually delete mail after you’ve read it, your
online mailbox eventually over ows. Sooner or later, the system starts
bouncing new messages back to their senders, annoying your friends.
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