IPhone – How to set the iphone mail app to send email only

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I use my gmail as my primary email address and use the gmail app on my iphone.

However, whenever I want to send a picture quickly from my camera roll it uses the default mail app and then proceeds to download all the emails it perceives as unread. All this mail is already in my gmail app,filed to read as I like.

Is there any way to set the ios mail to send only?

Thanks

Best Answer

You can setup iOS to send only, you just have to fool it :)

Here is how I did it on iOS 7...

  • If you have an existing GMail account setup in iPhone Mail, delete it.
  • Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts... > Add Account
  • From the list of choices, select Other
  • Select Add Mail Account
  • Fill in your details for your mail account, press Next
  • Choose POP instead of IMAP
  • For Incoming Mail Server I used dummy info like
    • Server: blah.gmail.com
    • User Name: blah
  • For Outgoing Mail Server I used the proper settings
    • Host Name: smtp.gmail.com
    • User Name:
    • Password:
  • Press Save
    • If it asks to save without SSL answer with NO
  • Press Save again!
    • It will warn you that it may not work. Confirm save.
  • Go to Settings > Mail,Contacts,... > 'your account' > SMTP > Primary Server
  • Verify SSL is on
  • Change Server Port to 587
  • Press Done and exit to Accounts.

That is it! You can now send emails and if you open the mail app it will complain because of the dummy Incoming Server.

Also check that you have the Settings > Mail,Contacts....> Fetch New Data settings to off/manual.

Hope that helped.

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