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setup IMAP - Acoount ON the iPad

Hi,

I somehow can't find a way to set up an IMAP Mail-Account on my iPad. Is there no possibility to do that??

The dialogue is different to the ones on iPhone / iPod touch...

Greets

tobibu

Message was edited by: tobibu76

Windows 7

Posted on May 31, 2010 1:21 AM

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May 31, 2010 12:15 PM in response to tobibu76

allright, went to see the genius today...

Apperently the point is the following:

I use a common mail-provider (GMX), that is often used as free mail service. But: as free mail Service they do not provide IMAP. I do pay them so I can use IMAP. For convenience for other people, when I put in my mail address mickey.mouse@gmx.de (of course not my real one), the iPad automatically switches to POP, as most people would use, and the configuration is done automatically.

As workaround, I could type in a different adress, fill in the proper configurations and change back to my real adress. Et voilà IMAP works... but who would think about that??

Greets tobi

Dec 8, 2010 6:48 AM in response to Matthias Krause

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!

sorry to caps that but I have literally been on the phone with my service provider for a day trying to get this dam ipad to function properly with imap. We've tried every setting combo possible and I've been sending hundreds of "test" emails from ipad to laptop to iphone to ipod touch and vice versa. I almost cried/threw myself out a window several times.

I almost gave up and just POP'd

then i found your post!

I set it up. Easy as pie.

It works!

Even called my serv provider to tell him b/c he was totally obsessing about it too. he must have called me four times with possible fixes that didn't work.

you just gave me an early xmas present!

thanks

marc

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