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Adjust advanced settings
m Choose Mail > Accounts, choose an account, then do one of the following:
 To set whether drafts, sent messages, and deleted messages are stored on iPhone or
remotely on your email server (IMAP accounts only), tap Advanced and choose Drafts
Mailbox, Sent Mailbox, or Deleted Mailbox.
If you store messages on iPhone, you can see them even when iPhone isn’t
connected to the Internet.
 To set when deleted messages are removed permanently from iPhone, tap Advanced and
tap Remove, then choose a time: Never, or after one day, one week, or one month.
 To adjust email server settings, tap Host Name, User Name, or Password under
Incoming Mail Server or Outgoing Mail Server. Ask your network administrator or
Internet service provider for the correct settings.
 To adjust SSL and password settings, tap Advanced. Ask your network administrator or
Internet service provider for the correct settings.
Delete an email account from iPhone
m Choose Mail, tap an account, then scroll down and tap Delete Account.
Deleting an email account from iPhone doesn’t delete it from your computer.
Settings for Email Messages
iPhone checks for and retrieves new email in your accounts whenever your open Mail.
You can also set Mail to regularly check for email and download your messages even
when you don’t have Mail open.
Set whether iPhone checks for new messages automatically
m Choose Mail > Auto-Check, then tap Manual,“Every 15 minutes,”“Every 30 minutes,” or
“Every hour.”
If you have a Yahoo! email account, email is instantly transferred to iPhone as it arrives
at the Yahoo! server.
Set whether iPhone plays an alert sound when you have new email
m Choose Sound, then turn New Mail on or off.
Set the number of messages shown on iPhone
m Choose Mail > Show, then choose a setting. You can choose to see the most recent 25,
50, 75,100, or 200 messages. To download additional messages when you’re in Mail,
scroll to the bottom of your inbox and tap “Download . . . more.”
Set how many lines of each message are previewed in the message list
m Choose Mail > Preview, then choose a setting. You can choose to see anywhere from
zero to five lines of each message. That way, you can scan a list of messages in a
mailbox and get an idea of what each message is about.