A Dragon in Sheep’s Clothing

This is a post for other iPhone /iPod Touch users who have trouble setting up your email as an account on your device.

Dreamhost DOES have a wiki article on it here: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/IPhone_3G

You can also find it by searching for iPhone at the Dreamhost support wiki. It is not linked from Dreamhost’s Email Configuration page.

Short answer to problems: If you’ve already tried inputting the mailservers, etc., and keep getting “authentication failed” messages, you’re simply supposed to click “Continue” to continue the process. You may have to do this twice. Eventually, your account will be set up, regardless of the error messages.