Comments on: Adding Eircom.net mail to iPhone

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:48:31 +0000

Followed above instructions using wifi and had no problems with incoming mail. Turned off wifi and set outgoing server as: mail1.eircom.net turned wifi back on – outgoing mail working fine now.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:45:23 +0000

Having great difficulty despite doing all above.
1) sending email from wifi at home can take hours
2) can check email on 3G but can’t send.
All stmp settings are on, should I turn them manually off/on when changing between 3G and wifi?

Any advise before I throw iPhone out window?!

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:39:08 +0000

Thanks Donal. Worked perfect first time on new iPhone4s with Vodafone.

Thanks very much

By: Ricco

Ricco — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:24:20 +0000

Good stuff Donal. Cheers.

Arelene, the SMTP outgoing settings you need for Vodafone is mail.vodafone.ie

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:36:58 +0000

Just a couple of points.

there are two “types” or ways of dealing with email – one is referred to as pop 3 and the other as imap.

pop3 was grand in simpler times when you had a pc and you downloaded your mail to to your inbox and it did not remain on the isps server. Gradually people wanted to access their mail from more than one device and thats where imap comes in – this effectively leaves your mail on the server and you access it from your various devices.

However you have to be precise in your settings. For example you have to turn on imap in your gmail settings and older eircom accounts need to be adapted to imap by requesting it from Eircom.

Also to ensure that all mails end up in your sent mail no matter what device you use you need to be using imap.

Also remember that usually your can access incoming mail relatively easily no matter which isp you are with however to send mail you usually have to use the smtp (outgoing server) of whichever isp you are using at the time.

So say you have a home connection with Eircom then you would be using Eircoms smtp on the pc or laptop but a mobile with say O2 then you will need to have o2’s smtp for sending via the mobile.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:19:18 +0000

Cheers Donal, worked a treat!
Well done!!!

Ken

By: Pamie

Pamie — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:49:30 +0000

I have entered above advice on iphone and all well except mail sent by iphone only visible on iphone not at home on laptop. All incoming mail available at home and on iphone. Viv had similar problem.

By: john

john — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:42:37 +0000

yes most helpful thanks – it finally dawned on me that I had to use Eircom as SMTP server when using wifi at home with my laptop – but mail1.eircom.net would not work so mail2.eircom.net is back-up!!!

with mobile email 3g or mobile email one has to use their (o2 or vodafone or 3 ) providers smtp

this seems to be a relatively new development and I dont know why – a control issue perhaps??

By: Jackie

Jackie — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:39:50 +0000

Donal
You are a genius. Been struggling with this for months. Eircom support had no idea! Thks again.

By: marian

marian — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:50:51 +0000

God bless you Donal, this had me nearly driven mad