How to add email accounts to the iPhone

This tutorial was put together on the iPhone 4 but should work for the 3G(s) models too.

Step 1

Firstly navigate to the iPhone settings.

Step 2

Select “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” from the 2^nd block of settings options

Step 3

Select “Add Account…” option

Step 4

Here you need to select the type of account your are adding. In this tutorial I am adding a basic email account so select “Other”. I will add other tutorials as and when I get round to them…

Step 5

As we are adding a mail account then you need to select “Add Mail Account” From the 1st grouping “Mail”

Step 6

We are now at the key stages, setting up the email settings. You need to add the following details:

• Name – This is what will appear in the “From” field in the email when you are sending emails.
• Address – This is the email address you are going to be using (It is a good idea to copy and paste the domain part (example.com) of the address to save time later)
• Password – The password for the email account you are using
• Description – This is used to identify the email account on your iPhone should you have multiple accounts

Press “Next” in the top right hand corner of the screen to proceed to the next page.

Step 7

We are now setting up the type of mail account and server connections. Select the type of account you want to use. I personally go with IMAP but if you are only using the iPhone for this account then POP is just fine. You need to add the following:

Incoming Mail Server

1. Host Name – In this case it is mail.your-domain-name.co.uk. This can be pop or pop3 in some case, please check with your email provider/web host company for the correct settings.
2. User Name – Your email address for this account
3. Password – The password for the email account

Outgoing Mail Server

1. Host Name – In this case it is mail.your-domain-name.co.uk. This can be smtp in some case, please check with your email provider/web host company for the correct settings.
2. User Name – Your email address for this account
3. Password – The password for the email account

When this is all filled in proceed to the next step by clicking “Save” in the top right hand corner of the screen.

Step 8

The next step applies to accounts that are not secured using an SSL certificate. You will receive a pop up explaining that the server identity cannot be verified. Just click Continue.

Step 9

Once this has been done and all details are verified click “Save” again in the top right hand corner of the screen.

Step 10

On some occasions the iPhone will set the account up using SSL settings. In this case you will get errors when sending and/or receiving emails. If this is the case then you need to edit the settings.

Go to the settings, as in step one, and select the account you have just set up.

On the next screen select the “Account”, you may need to change 2 settings here so scroll down to “Outgoing Mail Server” and you will see “SMTP” and “Advanced”. Click SMTP first.

Click the “Primary Server” option and turn off SSL and set the “Server Port” to 143; once verified return to the Account page.

This is where I mentioned there maybe 2 settings to alter. You should be at the screen with the “Advanced” option. Select this and scroll down to the “Incoming Settings”, turn off SSL and click the “Account” button in the top left of the screen.

Now click “Done” in the top right of the screen, the iPhone will verify the settings, this may take a few seconds to complete. Once this is done you are all set and can navigate home and then to the Email client you are using.

du -sh FOLDER_NAME

Listing ip addresses stored within the table

• iptables -L -n
• iptables -L -n –line-numbers

Insert IP Address

I = Insert

1 = position

• iptables -I FTP 1 -s ***.***.***.*** -j ACCEPT

Delete IP Address

-D = delete

1 = position in the table

• iptables -D FTP 1

This is ideal when using the command line on a regular basis. One example is that I do a great deal of development on my local machine so when I eventually come to connect to the remote server I have to keep typing the ssh command out.

By typeing history on the command line you get a numbered list of all the commands. Now this on its own isn’t really useful but when coupled with the following becomes extremely useful.

If you now type !number and press enter this will execute the command. (Number is the number of the item from the returned list)

Better still if you do the following… !number:p this prints the command to the list so you can then edit the command if some parameters need to be changed.

It gets better… yu can filter the returned list by using the grep command. history | grep “search term”

Use the above command to print the required command to the command line and away you go.

In the past it has only been a few files, no more than 50 or so which didn’t pose a great problem but today I have uncompressed a file with over 4000 files in it… and yes they were all duplicated. This makes a mess of the files structure.

I decided to research the issue and find away of preventing this from happening. I came across this post on Jim Plush’s blog.

By using the following command when decompressing will prevent the dot underscore files being added to the Linux box.

tar -zxpvf mytarfile.tgz ––exclude=”._*.*”

Let me know if anyone finds something else or has any issues / success with this.

EDIT,

Aside from the above, which seems to be failing and the issue has not gone away with prayer so I have been on the case this morning and have found a working solution.

tar zxpf test.tar ––exclude ._*

It seems that missing the speech marks from the file name and removing the equals has done the trick.

My trash can had 19k items in it (been a while…) and wasn’t sure I wanted to just empty the trash en-masse so to speak but just clear out groups of files, like all the zips and rars, all gifs etc

By using the following terminal command I was able to clear out files by extension.

find /Users/USER_NAME/.Trash/ -name "*.zip" -delete

Firstly you will need to have the image you want to use and note the name of it (name-of-image.jpg)

Note that changing the default logon image has to be done using terminal as the files are locked in to the root user, unless of course you are logged in to the Mac using the root login.

So open Terminal from the Applications/Utilities folder and you are ready to go.

If you want to keep the old image then it needs to be renamed so enter the following line in to the terminal window

sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg.old

You will be asked for the password so just enter it and press enter.

sudo cp /path/to/image name-of-image.jpg /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg

WEnter your password again and then the next time you log in the new screen will be there.

Alternatively there is little app that can do this if you are not to sure about using Terminal.

Head over to loginox and see if this is for you

find /path/to/folder/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l “TEXT YOU WANT TO FIND”

let me know if this is useful or can be improved.

I had long toyed with the idea of getting a mac but wasn’t sure due to the higher comparative costs for the hardware and whether I would get along with it or not. Rest assured those in the same position, you must make the leap. I took the plunge at the low end of the financial scale and went for the Mac Mini. A marvellous piece of kit, designed to perfection, aren’t they all, small, compact yet powerful. I added to it with the Iomega 500 GB hard drive, again designed to sit neatly under the Mini and at the time £80 for a 500GB drive was well priced and worth it. The first comment my dad made on seeing the shiny white box was “where’s the computer”, having spent years looking at towering machines I guess its difficult to see how the same thing can be packaged so delicately and good looking.

I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to grips with the Mac and am now getting itchy Mac feet. As I place more and more demand on my machine I feel its time to start looking to upgrade to a shiny new one. My dilemma this time is iMac or Mac book pro. My ever hectic life would be less hectic if I could work whilst on the move or whilst watching the football. Since April 2009 I have been using Macs at work too. I now have in front of me a 24″ iMac with additional 20″ screen off to the right. Over to the left side is 21″ iMac that I have for testing new websites for cross browser compatibility. Installed on this machine are 3 versions of Windows, XP, Vista and Win7 all running on VMware Fussion… at once… together with no problems; try getting that from a similar specification windows machine… blue screen of what I hear you cry.

Off to email Santa!

1 – defaults write “Apple Global Domain” AppleScrollBarVariant DoubleBoth

Puts double scroll arrows at both ends of scroll bar. Use Appearance pane in system preferences to reset.

2 – defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

Shows hidden files in the finder. Replace TRUE with FALSE to hide hidden files again

More to follow…