There are times when you want to read email on your iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS but reading through web browser like safari does not gives the best user experience since all the emails will be reading online. To have the best reading email pleasure, you can create new mailbox on iPhone. Mailbox on iPhone supports wide varieties of different email providers like GMail, Hotmail, YahooMail and Outlook. Don’t worry if you are not sure about the POP3 address as iPhone will configure the settings automatically for you.

To setup a new mailbox account. Follow these instructions.

1. Open Settings on your Home screen.
2. Tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Tap on Add Account…
4. You will have option to choose the mail providers. If your email provider is not list here, tap on Other.
5. After you have choose the email provider, enter your email address and password.
6. Once your account is setup successfully, it will start downloading latest emails on your inbox(You can change the email fetching settings later).
7. Open Mail on your Home screen to start enjoy reading emails on iPhone.

Mailboxes on iPhone are stored offline but still will connecting to mail server checking for latest emails. However, reading emails are much more faster than ever because it were downloaded to your iPhone device already.

There are times when we can’t login to Facebook because it has blocked by company proxy or you don’t want to let others know you are online in Facebook. While you can do this by sending email to Facebook to notify them to update status for you. Facebook allow users to update their profile status easily by sending an email to them. The overall process is very simple and easy. But I think you need to use your default email provider as specify in your Facebook account settings. I have try using my primary email and my status is updated in a second.

Step by step instructions

1. Login your account at Facebook.com. Go to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/ to obtain the Facebook email address for updating status.
2. Sign-in to your email account that use to login to Facebook. Compose a new email and enter recipient email you have obtain in previous step
3. Type the status you want in the email subject field. The email body can leave it blank. (Note: Status update via email does not support other languages such as Chinese, Japanese, French or others. It will appear as weird characters)
4. Click send and make sure the email is sent successfully.
5. Check your Facebook for updated status.
6. Done.

I guess you can upload pictures to Facebook by adding in email attachments but I am not yet try this yet as I don’t have any picture to upload. Will try that once I have new pictures to upload. Enjoy!

In case you don’t know, Facebook has a feature to add new comment from reply email. The process is same as you are replying an email to the recipient. It is pretty simple and straightforward. Take a look at the screenshot below:

1. Open your email inbox and read the email notification from Facebook regarding someone has comment on your status. You’ll see a text “Reply to this email to comment on this status“. Click “Reply” to this email button to proceed.
2. Make sure the email body content is empty. Now, enter your comment inside the body content. As you are finish, click “Send” button to send this email to Facebook and it will automatically update your comment in Facebook.
3. Done. Login to Facebook and verify your comment is updated.