To use FanMailPlus webmail, just log in at mail.fanmail.email with your email address and FanMailPlus password and you are good to go.
If you have FanMailPlus Email Forwarding, all your email is sent to your forwarding email address and you should use the settings for that account to read your email.
You can also read your FanMailPlus email with any Internet Email program that supports IMAP (the standard email storage system). Use the settings below to access and send email using FanMail's email servers:
To read your email
- Server type: IMAP
- Servername: mail.fanmail.com
- Username: your full FanMail email address
- Password: your FanMail email password
- Port: 143 (with STARTTLS encryption) or 993 (TLS/SSL encrypted)
- Authentication: Plain, Password, or Login
- Security: SSL/TLS (port 993) or STARTTLS (port 143) accept all certificates
Your Outgoing/Sending Settings
- Server type: SMTP
- Servername: mail.fanmail.email
- Username: your full FanMail email address
- Password: your FanMail email password
- Port: 25 (sometimes blocked by ISPs) or 587 (standard)
- Authentication Type: Plain, Password, or Login
- Security: STARTTLS or SSL/TLS (accept all certificates)
iPhone steps if the above does not work
- Select Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars ->(FanMail Account)->IMAP Account->(Scroll to bottom) Advanced
- Scroll to bottom of page and Turn off "Use SSL" (The Server Port should change to 143)
- Turn on "Use SSL" (The Server Port should change to 993)
- Change "Server Port" from 993 to 143
- Click "< Account" at top of screen
- Click Done at the top of the screen
- You should get a Verifying screen
- If the Verification passes you should briefly see a Check Mark/Verification Passed screen
If you have problems getting your iPhone to connect to read your email, try the following. Several users have reported success following the steps below. You may need to repeat them more than once, and/or try reentering your password to force your iPhone to retry after a failure.