Setting the Mail app on your iPhone or iPod Touch to get GroupWise email is quick and easy!
Please note this does not apply to the GroupWise calendar. At this time, the best way to access your GroupWise calendar on your Apple device is through Safari via https://wvugw.wvu.edu
Checklist:
-A 2nd generation iPhone or iPod Touch, or a 1st generation iPhone or iPod Touch with the latest system update installed (version 2.2).
- You’ll need your username and password for the GroupWise email you want to access.
- You’ll need your Central ID username and password, too. If you don’t know yours, start here http://centralid.wvu.edu
- Make sure your device has an active connection to the internet.
Now your device will attempt to log in and retrieve your email. Chances are, it will ask you to accept a security certificate. If it does, please do! Or, if it fails to access your account the 1st time, follow the prompts to try again.
Sometimes it takes a minute or two for everything to sync. Be patient =)
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Sarah- I should clarify.
Safari was the only choice for web browsers on the iPhone/Touch- until a couple of weeks ago. It comes pre-installed on these devices, and works well. Apple just started approving new web browsers that use the Safari guts at their core, but they are to be used at your own peril.
For now, Safari is the only reliable game in town for web browsing on your iPhone/Touch.
Soon, hopefully, there might be a version of Firefox for these devices.
For Windows or Mac, I always recommend Firefox over any other browser. Keep Safari and IE7 on the machine(s) you use, but use Firefox as the main web browser.
Why?
Firefox is Open Source, plus it works on Linux, Windows, and Macs. It’s free to download and use, adheres to web standards, and is updated with security and bug fixes promptly.
And it’s customizable with an overwhelming number of downloadable add-ons. I’ve got everything from a built-in Twitter client, to a Woot watcher, a super-duper tabbed browsing utility, to a dedicated Evernote button, and a plug-in that lets Firefox embed Internet Explorer in its own tab (for those poorly designed, non-web-standards compliant sites that require IE to work correctly).
Very good. Very good. MIX is just as easy to set up. Just enter your MIX email address where applicable, and change the incoming server to mix.wvu.edu. Very good post Steve.
We’ve just put everybody in my company on iPhones and I was looking into Group applications like this.
Good post.
Thanks,
Jon Boyd
[...] couple of months ago we posted about accessing GroupWise email on an iPhone or iPod Touch. At that time we did not know of a way to sync GroupWise calendars with these devices as well. [...]
how do you set up a student MIX account on an iPhone??
I would also like to set up an iPhone for a MIX account
Can we get the smtp authentication switched over to MasterID instead of CentralID? This is the first time in years that i’ve seen the need for Central ID …
After the MIX update, on the iPhone, incoming mail is fine, but you cannot send mail from the iPhone.
perhaps a change in the outgoing server?
Also, if syncing with Mail on a macbook, you can also not send mail through MIX.
Any suggestions?
Syncing GroupWise calendars with other apps and RSS feeds is now trivial. Go to the iPhone apps store and do a simple search. What one should be looking at though is how to apply the above challenge to the iTablet.
Could you also post directions for setting up the Palm Pre to access GroupWise email?
Rory: When Apple gets around to rolling out a tablet device, we’ll be there =)
Syncing GW calendars might be easier if Novell makes some rumored changes to their software in the coming year. I hope so. There still isn’t an easy and/or free method I’ve found that works better than detailed by Roman in another post.
David: The info we give here, for host names and whatnot, should be applicable to your Pre. We don’t have a Pre to work with, hence no info on the blog. I imagine you could just as easily add a new email account with your Palm device, but I don’t know the specifics.
About MIX: As Jamie says, you should be able to “Just enter your MIX email address where applicable, and change the incoming server to mix.wvu.edu”.
I know this is tedious, but I have yet to get an answer as far as MIX on the iPhone post Mix update.
It’s still having the same issues. Like I said, it was a breeze prior to the update, but now the iPhone, iTouch, or MAIL on a macbook is unable to send via MiX.
Again….Any suggestions???
Jessica: These are the things I’ve got plugged in to my iPhone/Touch for MIX:
Incoming Mail Server
Host name: mix.wvu.edu
Outgoing Mail Server
SMTP: exsmtp.systems.wvu.edu
Central ID and Password for the Outgoing Mail Server
I can post screen shots of the setup tomorrow.
I know I’m not crazy or technologically stupid (lol) but I have entered the above four times and am getting an error.
I am getting the error that my incoming username/password is
incorrect. I am 100% sure I am entering the correct username/password
I guess it was an issue with my phone because I got a new iPhone and it worked the first time I attempted! Sorry for the confusion and thanks for all the help 
Hey I thought that some of the posts for setting up mix on your iPhone were pretty confusing so I thought I’d add what I know:
My mix works on my phone with absolutely no errors or annoyances (thankfully). This is what I did to set up:
Under Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Select Add Account > * Here you will be prompted with a menu that has Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Select ‘Other’.
Choose Add Mail Account, then enter your contact info for your mix account. After it checks your info, select IMAP at the top so that it is highlighted in blue.
Now, for the section IMAP Account Information:
Name: Enter your full name.
Address: Enter your full mix address.
(Description will fill in itself)
For the section called Incoming Mail Server:
Host Name: mix.wvu.edu
User Name: type your mix username
Password: type your mix password
For Outgoing Mail Server:
SMTP: exsmtp.systems.wvu.edu
After you Save all of this information, it takes about 5 minutes to process… Just wait until it finishes, it will work, I promise
Finally, after your email is set up, go back into Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Click your mix account
Click SMTP
Under Other SMTP Servers, Turn ON AT&T SMTP Server
This will help with sending emails.
That should be it! Good Luck.
I have had no luck with this set up
Roland Laman
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Steve – Why do you recommend Safari over FireFox on the Mac for accessing GroupWise calendar on the web? Just curious. Is there really a difference?