Sync mail accounts from macOS to iOS device - How?

englishpremier · 23 Feb 2017 at 23:35

I've got some imap accounts set up on my Mac. How do I get those accounts (the settings) synced over to my iPhone?

All the information my searches have turned up seems to be years out of date.

hartgeh3 · 25 Feb 2017 at 15:34

Have you been through the Mail settings on your iPhone and set it up at all?

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201320

englishpremier · 25 Feb 2017 at 18:25

Yep. There is no option there to import .mobileconfig file nor to pull accounts from a mac. Pretty poor really that has to be done manually.

It seems that previously there was a way to do this in itunes but it was removed a year or so ago.

Feek · 25 Feb 2017 at 18:53

Pretty sure that when I set up my iPhone, I just turned on iCloud and the mail accounts from my Mac synced out to the phone automatically and these weren't just Apple mail either.

englishpremier · 25 Feb 2017 at 19:16

I have icloud turned on. There is an icloud mail setting but it seems to only be for an icloud email address which is something separate. I don't have nor want an icloud email address.

Never mind.

GSXRMovistar · 6 Apr 2017 at 13:37

With IMAP your email won't be sync'ing between devices directly but via the mail server. Just enter your imap settings into each device and everything should be in sync. I have several IMAP accounts working like this across all my devices (mac, MacBook, iPhone etc).

englishpremier · 6 Apr 2017 at 13:52

GSXRMovistar said:
With IMAP your email won't be sync'ing between devices directly but via the mail server. Just enter your imap settings into each device and everything should be in sync. I have several IMAP accounts working like this across all my devices (mac, MacBook, iPhone etc).

Yes that what I was trying to avoid. entering incoming and outgoing servers for multiple accounts, along with passwords. Really it ought to be able to pull these from mac or at least accept a config file.

Deleted member 77746 · 8 Apr 2017 at 17:30

englishpremier said:
Yes that what I was trying to avoid. entering incoming and outgoing servers for multiple accounts, along with passwords. Really it ought to be able to pull these from mac or at least accept a config file.

That's not how email servers work I'm afraid. Central servers to clients.

englishpremier · 8 Apr 2017 at 23:34

This hasn't got anything to do with mail servers. I think you're getting confused, or i've misled you.

I wanted iOS to pull all my account details from MacOS, to save me having configure Mail on the iPhone. It's pretty basic really. It's not got anything to do with the actual email servers.

Deleted member 77746 · 9 Apr 2017 at 19:21

englishpremier said:
This hasn't got anything to do with mail servers. I think you're getting confused, or i've misled you.

I wanted iOS to pull all my account details from MacOS, to save me having configure Mail on the iPhone. It's pretty basic really. It's not got anything to do with the actual email servers.

Oh I get you. I miss read that's all. I'm sure you can create a profile file using the Apple Configuration Tool, however you can't automatically pull the info from the Mac.

Daaaavvveee · 9 Apr 2017 at 20:02

It takes literally 2 minutes to set up the email account, most likely quicker than searching how to automate it

Deleted member 138126 · 10 Apr 2017 at 22:46

englishpremier said:
This hasn't got anything to do with mail servers. I think you're getting confused, or i've misled you.

I wanted iOS to pull all my account details from MacOS, to save me having configure Mail on the iPhone. It's pretty basic really. It's not got anything to do with the actual email servers.

It does do this between Macs, I just setup a new Mac, and it prompted me to enable my Office 365 account that it synced once I logged in with my iCloud account.

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Apr 2017 at 05:53

rotor said:
It does do this between Macs, I just setup a new Mac, and it prompted me to enable my Office 365 account that it synced once I logged in with my iCloud account.

Mac > Mac but not Mac > iOS

Sync mail accounts from macOS to iOS device - How?

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