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All the information my searches have turned up seems to be years out of date.

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.

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.

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.

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.