Setting up email accounts on your devices

Setting up email accounts on your devices

Categories: Email, Email clients

This article has information on setting up your email address on many popular email clients and devices, as well as logging in on any device via the online webmail. Every email client requires some specific pieces of information, which can be found in the below table. Scroll down for instructions on setting up your account on specific email clients/applications.

Account Name/Username This is your full email address (you@yourwebsite.co.nz)
Password This is the password that has been provided to you.
Incoming mail server mx1.sitehost.co.nz
Incoming mail port 993
Incoming authentication/Connection security/SSL SSL
Outgoing mail server (SMTP) mx1.sitehost.co.nz
Outgoing port 465 or 587
Outgoing authentication/Connection security/SSL SSL or STARTLS
Authentication method Normal password / Normal

All instructions are on how to set up an IMAP email account (which can sync your emails between many devices), as this is the setting we recommend, upon request we can provide POP3 server settings.

For detailed instructions on setting up emails on a specific email client or device, click on one of the headings below.