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Setting Up District 6 Email on Your iPhone

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

It seems like everyone is getting an iPhone now and we get asked often, how to setup the iPhone to work with our District 6 Mail server.  Here are some (hopefully) simple steps to making that happen.

1) Click on the Settings Icon.

2) Scroll down and click on “Mail, Contacts, Calendars”

3) Click on “Add Account….”

4)  Click on “Microsoft Exchange”

5) In the Email section, enter your email address
Leave Domain Blank
For the Username, enter your email address
For the Password, enter your district password and press the “Next” button at the top right of that screen.

6)Wait a minute or so and a prompt will pop up.  Push “Accept”.

7) Now, in the Server box, type in “mail.district6.org” and push the “Next” button.

8) VERY IMPORTANT

  • On this screen you need to select what options you want synced.  You will need to at least select “Mail”.  Most people will want to also select “Contacts” and “Calendars” too.  NOTE:  If you select Contacts, it will overwrite the contacts you have on your iPhone with the Contacts you have in Zimbra.  Just make sure that’s what you want before you do it.  If you have what you want selected, hit “Done”.

9) Now you should see your new account listed in your Accounts Page.  Now click on the Home Button and you can now check your mail.  Have fun.

Zimbra maintenance: 11/20/08 9pm-11pm

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

We will be installing updates (bug fixes) on the Zimbra email server tonight (11/20) starting at 9pm and ending at 11pm.  In past experience, this work has taken about 45 minutes, but be forewarned that it could take up to two hours.  Mail received during this period will be delivered to mailboxes when the server is back up.

Again, the email server will be back by about 11 pm.  Hopefully, running the upgrade in the late evening will avoid any inconvenience.

There were a lot of bugs fixed that only really matter to techies like us which we won’t bother posting.  This is a selected group of the bugs fixed which affected Zimbra users in our schools:

  • Sharing a folder and assigning the admin permissions on the folder now works correctly.  This should help with shared calendars delegated by the admin@district6.org user to building techs or people at schools managing calendars.  e.g. the D6 or CHS master calendar. (Fixed in 5.0.11)
  • The really annoying bug where clicking on a Spam Mail Summary could cause Internet Explorer to freeze.  (Firefox is still the best browser for Zimbra, but this should make IE at least usable. (Fixed in 5.0.11)
  • When you right-click the email content pane column header to modify the email view, disabling the Received column no longer disables the Inbox view. (Fixed in 5.0.11)

And a couple that were actually fixed in 5.0.10 but I think bear repeating:

  • Fixed issues with appointment reminder in Calendar that caused alert information about meetings to display at the wrong time. Reminders display correctly now.
  • Fixed issues in Zimbra Web Client – Clicking the From column in ZCS now sorts messages in the content pane correctly.