[GUIDE] The WORKING way to set-up MULTIPLE E-MAILS with MOBILEME!!!

[EnderTW]

So after testing and needing a good complete guide to set up mobile me with multiple reply-from emails I made one.

First step. Make a dummy gmail account. This is the only real way to make sure it works completely and you don't have dummy emails being sent to you. This will also not break mobile me on your iphone.

1st Step
Create a dummy gmail account. I will explain this later. Make it something you will NEVER use and/or give out. I recommend going to gmail.com and making a new account, it's easy, fast, and it is what I did. Also, enable IMAP when you get into the gmail account. It should be under settings -> Forward/IMAP/POP

2nd Step
Set up a mail account for mobileme, if you already done this and have a mobileme set up good. Also, set up forwarding for all the emails you wish to do to your @me.com address.

3rd Step
Set up a new mail account. By going to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calender -> Add Account... -> Other Now for Name, Address, Password, and Description fill in the information for your e-mail address that you want people to see replied from.

4th Step
Now you will see Incoming Mail Server, this is the part where you put your FAKE GMAIL ACCOUNT. If you are using gmail for your dummy account settings will be this,

Host Name = imap.gmail.com
Username = the fake gmail username you set up
password = password to account.

Under OUTGOING MAIL SERVER, you want to put the REAL out going mail server information for the account you want to have the FROM information for. For instance, I had my educational account set up. So for Outgoing mail server I had mail.hawaii.edu, then username for that account and password for that account.

Step 5,

YOU ARE DONE.

Repeat the process for each email you want to add. Then when you reply or write an e-mail from your @me.com account on the iPhone, click the CC/BCC From tag, then click From: again and you will see a list of the email addresses you added. It will send like normal.

The reason you need a fake gmail account is because you need a real incoming mail server, however, you don't want to use the same incoming mail server if you're just using it for FROM because it will place two emails one that was forwarded to your mobileme account and another that was fetched from your server

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REPLY, but this should be the definite guide to this problem.



ALSO!!! if you tried other solutions in where you put your @me.com info in your incoming mail server and your the FROM: address info in outgoing, you need to RE ADD your @me.com account (Delete/Add) because it screws up your push capability!!!

[EnderTW]

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I hope it is working for you guys. let me know! It's worked flawlessly so far. Hasn't interfered with my push email so far, and no copies in the other mailbox. It's sad Apple doesn't include an easy way to add an SMTP server to do this, but this is the only solution that fixes everything that I know of.

[NJRonbo]

Not working on the iPhone. I have another method that works
perfectly for me, but let me address what is not working on my
iPhone and perhaps you can correct it.

I set up GMAIL to forward my POP mail accounts to my MobileMe
address.

On the iPhone I set up an "Other" account. I first put all information
related to the POP account I wanted displayed in my messages other
than my MobileMe account.

Following your instructions I used the imap.gmail.com address for
incoming mail and my own personal POP server for outgoing mail
so that when I reply on my iPhone my personal address shows.

Saving all that information, the iPhone did not verify it, saying
something about SSL security and such.

Want to know what worked for me instead? I didn't set my iPhone
up under "OTHER." Instead, I set it up under MobileMe. Here are
directions that have had my accounts working flawlessly...

Create a GMAIL account

1. Go to Google Mail and create a personal account

2. After you have successfully registered, log into your GMAIL
account and click on SETTINGS in top right corner

3. Go to Accounts and scroll down to Get Mail From Other
Accounts. Fill out the information pertaining to the POP3 account
you wish GMAIL to retrieve mail from.

4. Go to Forwarding and POP and select the option Enable POP
only for mail that arrives from now on

5. Repeat above steps for additional POP addresses you wish to forward to MobileMe.

6. Final Step: Make the one account you want all your addressed mail
to appear from as the DEFAULT account under GMAIL. This is important when
replying to mail via iPhone



Set up .MAC to push on your iPhone


1. On your iPhone go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Add
An Account -> Mobile ME

2. Use your .Mac/MobileMe address and password. SAVE

3. Go back into MobileMe configuration in mail settings, click account
info and where it says smtp.me.com scroll down till you find smtp.gmail.com and use it.
You need to turn OFF the smtp.me.com and turn on or add smtp.gmail.com

You can now send mail from your iPhone with your default POP address
not related to .MAC or .ME


Set up your LEOPARD MAIL account

Now that you have MobileMe as your primary Mail.app account
on your desktop or laptop you now face the problem of not being
able to send new mail under your preferred POP account.

Under your preferred POP account, go to Mail Prefs. Accounts. Advanced.
UNCHECK "Include when automatically checking for new mail"


As I said, this works flawlessly. I could not get your method
to work as the iPhone would not save the account as set up. If
I made a mistake let me know.

Also, if you can see any disadvantages in the instructions I
provided I would love to know about it.

Thanks!

[anthonymoody]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this won't/can't change the default reply-to address, right? Meaning - every single time you reply, you have to change the "from" address from the gmail account to your preferred account, yes?

What I want is to simply set and forget, such that every time I reply to a pushed @me.com email it's "from" my primary email address *without* having to hit the "From" field and change it via the scroll wheel that appears.

[UKmacman]

I found this answer as I reported on another post.

Set the default email at yourname@yourdomain.com

Then when you go to send an email through mobileme it will still say sending from yournaeme@me.com but when the other person gets it they will only see it is from the default email and not mobileme.

Fooled me for a while as I kept seeing the mobileme address and didn't bother to check what was being read when sent!

[iptaylm]

I still can't get any emails to push to my mobile me account on my Iphone.

Here are my current settings

On my Iphone
Gmail account - inactive
Mobile me - xxxxxxx@me.com - active
set to accept and sync mail only.
SMTP: smtp.gmail.com

On my Web Gmail Account settings:
Accounts: I have just 1 of my 3 POP accounts listed so far for testing purposes
POP is enabled
IMAP is enabled


Everytime I send a test email to the POP account I have set up to forward in Gmail, nothing shows up on my Iphone when mobile me checks for new mail. There is a copy of it in my Gmail web inbox though.

Sigh..........

[anthonymoody]

Hmm. Not in my case. The from field on the iphone says mobileme, and the email actually arrives from mobileme.

I'll keep messing around...

[ViperrepiV]

If I use this method to push gmail emails to mobile me, so they get pushed to my phone, then the messages will appear as unread when go back to my gmail account (on the web), correct?

[SiskoKid]

Not sure what the complications are. I set up my MobileMe account and Gmail account on my iPhone. I deactivate my Gmail account and set my MobileMe outgoing server to gmail's outgoing server. I also have Gmail set up to forward e-mails to my @me.com account.

And you're done. Nothing else to do. When you get an gmail email, it sends to your iPhone instantaneously and when you click reply, it responds with your gmail account automatically. It works great.

[SiskoKid]

If I use this method to push gmail emails to mobile me, so they get pushed to my phone, then the messages will appear as unread when go back to my gmail account (on the web), correct?

Yes.

[anthonymoody]

Not sure what the complications are. I set up my MobileMe account and Gmail account on my iPhone. I deactivate my Gmail account and set my MobileMe outgoing server to gmail's outgoing server. I also have Gmail set up to forward e-mails to my @me.com account.

And you're done. Nothing else to do. When you get an gmail email, it sends to your iPhone instantaneously and when you click reply, it responds with your gmail account automatically. It works great.


Maybe the problem I'm having is that the "main" email I'm trying to get to work is not a gmail account. Perhaps my hosting company does not allow this type of SMTP relaying.

Question about some of the above methods wherein the gmail account is told to POP into other accounts (I could have it pop into my main account): how quickly is the POP? When it arrived in my main account, would GMail find it instantly via POP, and forward it instantly to the me.com address? Or is there some delay via POP?

TM

[Trimmer2]

This gMail workaround (first post) seems to be working for me as far as actually sending and receiving emails on my iPhone / MobileMe. (receiving through MM and sending through my POP smtp server)

With this set up or a better set up, is there a way to have the "sent", "deleted" and etc emails get pushed to MobileMe? With your set up, if I respond to an email from my iPhone, the response stays on the iPhone and doesn't get pushed to MobileMe ...and thus iMail. ...and if I respond via iMail it doesn't get pushed to MM and thus iPhone either.

My head start spinning with all the "what ifs"

[SiskoKid]

Maybe the problem I'm having is that the "main" email I'm trying to get to work is not a gmail account. Perhaps my hosting company does not allow this type of SMTP relaying.

Question about some of the above methods wherein the gmail account is told to POP into other accounts (I could have it pop into my main account): how quickly is the POP? When it arrived in my main account, would GMail find it instantly via POP, and forward it instantly to the me.com address? Or is there some delay via POP?

TM

Oy. That sucks. I wish I could be more help to you :(

The way MobileMe seems to do POP is that you manually check your other account. It doesn't try to pull your POP account every few minutes or so (from my understanding of its instructions). If you forward your Gmail account to MobileMe, it's instantaneous and shows up on your phone ASAP. So, in your case, you may need to have your main e-mail forward to Gmail, then have Gmail forward to MobileMe and then it'll Push to your phone. The problem here is that when you reply from your iPhone, you can't reply with your main e-mail account since you can't put that outgoing server into your phone.

I'll dig some more and see if there's something I'm missing.

[NJRonbo]

when commenting on the success of this
working for you could you please indicate
Which instructions you used on the iPhone?

The original post said to create an "other"
account on iPhone.

My instructions were to use MobileMe account
On iPhone and modify the outgoing SMTP server.

Need to know which worked.

[Trimmer2]

This gMail workaround (first post) seems to be working for me as far as actually sending and receiving emails on my iPhone / MobileMe. (receiving through MM and sending through my POP smtp server)

With this set up or a better set up, is there a way to have the "sent", "deleted" and etc emails get pushed to MobileMe? With your set up, if I respond to an email from my iPhone, the response stays on the iPhone and doesn't get pushed to MobileMe ...and thus iMail. ...and if I respond via iMail it doesn't get pushed to MM and thus iPhone either.

My head start spinning with all the "what ifs"

Maybe I figured it out.

I went in to "Advanced" on my server settings (on my iPhone) and it gives me check options for what to do with Drafts, Sent, Trash whether to keep on the phone or server. Is this what I was looking for??

[gt9228a]

when commenting on the success of this
working for you could you please indicate
Which instructions you used on the iPhone?

The original post said to create an "other"
account on iPhone.

My instructions were to use MobileMe account
On iPhone and modify the outgoing SMTP server.

Need to know which worked.

Well I used OP's instructions and it worked fine. Use could probably use an "other account" or a "gmail account" when setting up. All you have to do make sure the IMAP and SMTP server settings are correct.

Has anyone used this method with google apps for domains? Using this method works for my personal domain right now, but when some people receive the email it will say "sent from soandso@soandso.com on behalf of fakeemail@gmail.com"

I am wondering if using google apps for my domain it would remove the "on behalf of" part.

Otherwise, great instructions. If only we could set a default "FROM" address automatically.

[EnderTW]

when commenting on the success of this
working for you could you please indicate
Which instructions you used on the iPhone?

The original post said to create an "other"
account on iPhone.

My instructions were to use MobileMe account
On iPhone and modify the outgoing SMTP server.

Need to know which worked.

It depends. I have more then one e-mail address that people send me information on. If you change your mobileme account smtp server, that means you will only have one email to use.

My method works if you have 2-3+ addresses.

[EnderTW]

Well I used OP's instructions and it worked fine. Use could probably use an "other account" or a "gmail account" when setting up. All you have to do make sure the IMAP and SMTP server settings are correct.

Has anyone used this method with google apps for domains? Using this method works for my personal domain right now, but when some people receive the email it will say "sent from soandso@soandso.com on behalf of fakeemail@gmail.com"

I am wondering if using google apps for my domain it would remove the "on behalf of" part.

Otherwise, great instructions. If only we could set a default "FROM" address automatically.

Thanks, I am not sure about google apps for domains. I know the method I outlined will be the same as if you were sending it from a fully setup account because you are using their SMTP server.

Default From address you would have to set up your SMTP server on your @me.com account to be the smtp server for desired @address.com .. however this will only work if you just have one email address you wish to reply from

[gt9228a]

Thanks, I am not sure about google apps for domains. I know the method I outlined will be the same as if you were sending it from a fully setup account because you are using their SMTP server.

Default From address you would have to set up your SMTP server on your @me.com account to be the smtp server for desired @address.com .. however this will only work if you just have one email address you wish to reply from

Oh yeah, that makes sense. Since I want all my email to be sent from my personal domain address, I will change this.

Thanks again for your help.

[NJRonbo]

Looking at the above post by EnderTW ...

I want to try setting up my iPhone according
to the very first post where you have to create
a "other" account.

Problem for me, after putting in the server
information as indicated in the first post
it will not save on my iPhone.

But EnderTW mentions something interesting
by saying the default SMTP address also needs
To be entered under ME.

Where specifically is this done?

[gt9228a]

Oh yeah, that makes sense. Since I want all my email to be sent from my personal domain address, I will change this.

Thanks again for your help.

So I made the default SMTP server for my Mobileme Account the smtp.gmail.com server.. (I turned OFF the mobileme smtp server and used the gmail smtp server)

And now when I reply to an email sent to my mobileme account, even If I do not change the from address in the actual email (it still says account@me.com), the outgoing email will have the address of my gmail account (me@personaldomain.com). Therefore, I do not need to click on the from address for each mail anymore. using the scroll-wheel thing. This is great!

Great setup for anyone who sends mail from one account only, but receives from multiple accounts. Basically this can emulate "Personalities" like gmail has.

[anthonymoody]

HFS success! The problem I was having was that the mail email I wanted to use was not a Gmail, and my provider doesn't allow what Gmail does in terms of acting as an SMTP relay (am I saying that right??) so when I did the above, but substituted my hosting companies servers for gmails, it didn't work.

So I created a dummy gmail account, forwarded my main account to it (rather than have gmail POP into it), and forwarded the gmail to my me.com address.

Now it works as it should - my main email gets pushed to me instantly (via gmail), and both replies and new mails are sent from my main address.

However, as has been pointed out, on the iphone it appears as if the mail is being sent from the me.com address. However, recipients see the proper default address..

Success! Thanks guys! And, thanks gmail!! for allowing what Apple should have in the first place!

TM

[gt9228a]

HFS success! The problem I was having was that the mail email I wanted to use was not a Gmail, and my provider doesn't allow what Gmail does in terms of acting as an SMTP relay (am I saying that right??) so when I did the above, but substituted my hosting companies servers for gmails, it didn't work.

So I created a dummy gmail account, forwarded my main account to it (rather than have gmail POP into it), and forwarded the gmail to my me.com address.

Now it works as it should - my main email gets pushed to me instantly (via gmail), and both replies and new mails are sent from my main address.

However, as has been pointed out, on the iphone it appears as if the mail is being sent from the me.com address. However, recipients see the proper default address..

Success! Thanks guys! And, thanks gmail!! for allowing what Apple should have in the first place!

TM

Seriously, thank god for Gmail. Maybe they should have designed mobileme. I guess they are saving their push email,file storage app for the gphone?

[NJRonbo]

gt,

So you basically used my instructions, yes?

[gt9228a]

gt,

So you basically used my instructions, yes?

Well I initially used the OP's instructions, but then I used yours after I figured things out a little more. Basically I did this:

I have a gmail account and a mobile me account.
In gmail, I have all my gmail forwarded to the mobile me account.

On the iphone, I set up both accounts (mobileme and gmail). All my email will arrive in my mobileme account. When I reply to my email, I set up my mobileme account to use Gmail's SMTP server. And now everything works great.

[anthonymoody]

Seriously, thank god for Gmail. Maybe they should have designed mobileme. I guess they are saving their push email,file storage app for the gphone?


I had the same thought!

The only problem with this set up is that mail-state (read, unread, deleted, etc.) does not auto-sync b/t the iphone and my desktop, which is a bummer as I'd previously used an IMAP set up with my main account. But I like the push :)

TM

[gt9228a]

I had the same thought!

The only problem with this set up is that mail-state (read, unread, deleted, etc.) does not auto-sync b/t the iphone and my desktop, which is a bummer as I'd previously used an IMAP set up with my main account. But I like the push :)

TM

The other problem with the set-up is that when you send a message through the gmail servers, it can only save the sent-mail in the sent-mail-folder on the gmail server it seems (not on the mobileme server).

[gt9228a]

Just noticed a simpler way to do things (apologies if someone already mentioned this).

Basically just set-up your mobile me account on your iphone. Dont set up the gmail account on your iphone.

Go to the SMTP settings for your mobile me account, click add SMTP server and just add the gmail smtp server with your gmail username and password (the entry might already be there if you previously set up and removed your gmail account).

Then you will only have 1 account show up (the mobile me account) while all your replies will be sent through the gmail SMTP server. Everything seems to be working great this way.

[anthonymoody]

gt you can also just "deactivate" the account from the phone - so it's still there if you ever want to look at it for any reason. but when inactive it wont show up in your list of inboxes.

[gt9228a]

gt you can also just "deactivate" the account from the phone - so it's still there if you ever want to look at it for any reason. but when inactive it wont show up in your list of inboxes.

Thanks, i just noticed that as well.

Looks like gmail saves the day for me and allows me to use mobileme how I want.

[NJRonbo]

Just noticed a simpler way to do things (apologies if someone already mentioned this).

Basically just set-up your mobile me account on your iphone. Dont set up the gmail account on your iphone.

Go to the SMTP settings for your mobile me account, click add SMTP server and just add the gmail smtp server with your gmail username and password (the entry might already be there if you previously set up and removed your gmail account).

Then you will only have 1 account show up (the mobile me account) while all your replies will be sent through the gmail SMTP server. Everything seems to be working great this way.


That's my method in post (I think) #3.

No need to create an "other account"

Just change the smpt server to GMAIL in the MobileMe account.

[soLoredd]

What about mail folders? On my Gmail, I have folders like pending orders, vacations, work, etc. By forwarding to MobileMe, I guess I won't able to use those folders?

If not, can these settings also be used on the Mac within Mail so both my iPhone and Mail are synced? I need to be able to access my email from both locations.

[NJRonbo]

Mail Folders work PERFECTLY.

Whatever folders you create on Leopard Mail.app are created
on all devices. Any transfers you do folder wise are repeated
across the board.

[soLoredd]

Maybe I'm not getting this right...

In Mail on my Mac, I created a mailbox titled "Saved" under MobileMe. I moved an email from my Gmail "Saved" folder to the MobileMe folder, however, the folder is not being created on the cloud (MobileMe web) or my iPhone. With Gmail, I am able to created mailboxes in Mail on the Mac and it creates them on the web as well as my iPhone.

Anyone else able to do this or know what's going on?

[SiskoKid]

Mail Folders work PERFECTLY.

Whatever folders you create on Leopard Mail.app are created
on all devices. Any transfers you do folder wise are repeated
across the board.

Do you know if Mail's smart folders sync across the board? That'd be ideal!

[soLoredd]

Strange. The folder I created on my Mac did show up on my iPhone but not MobileMe web. Now THAT is some strange stuff. Gmail seems to be far more superior when it comes to this type of stuff. Maybe the IMAP setup on my Mac that MobileMe does automatically isn't correct. I don't know...

[NJRonbo]

Sisko,

I don't know what is wrong on your end.

I simply went to my Leopard Mail.app and created new
folders under my MAC/MOBILE ME address that now shows
up on the left column underneath my INBOX, SENT, TRASH, etc...

Go to Mailbox -> New Mailbox

Again, the folders should appear under your mac.com address
on the left column of your mail.app

Those same folders now show up on the MobileMe webpage,
the iPhone and my laptop.

Whatever mail I drag to one folder gets dragged across the board.

[soLoredd]

Sisko,

I don't know what is wrong on your end.

I simply went to my Leopard Mail.app and created new
folders under my MAC/MOBILE ME address that now shows
up on the left column underneath my INBOX, SENT, TRASH, etc...

Go to Mailbox -> New Mailbox

Again, the folders should appear under your mac.com address
on the left column of your mail.app

Those same folders now show up on the MobileMe webpage,
the iPhone and my laptop.

Whatever mail I drag to one folder gets dragged across the board.

Thanks for the help :)

It took about 20 minutes for the folder to FINALLY show up on me.com. So, I have Gmail set to forward my email to me.com and it goes through ok to my Mac but man, the push to my iPhone is seriously messed up. My fiance sent me an email about 15 minutes ago and it still isn't pushing to the iPhone, even though it's there on me.com and my MacBook. :confused:

[NJRonbo]

There has been discussion as to how "immediate" GMAIL receives
and forwards email to accounts.

For me it seems fast, but I will admit, there have been instances
that it took more than 30 minutes for mail to push to my devices
from GMAIL.

Unfortunately, none of this is perfect. GMAIL is actually is actually
a workaround to the blatant omissions that MobileMe made to its
$99 per year software. Really, Apple should have seen this coming
and provided a better service to their customers that would allow
them to push multiple email accounts.

[natasha69]

Just noticed a simpler way to do things (apologies if someone already mentioned this).

Basically just set-up your mobile me account on your iphone. Dont set up the gmail account on your iphone.

Go to the SMTP settings for your mobile me account, click add SMTP server and just add the gmail smtp server with your gmail username and password (the entry might already be there if you previously set up and removed your gmail account).

Then you will only have 1 account show up (the mobile me account) while all your replies will be sent through the gmail SMTP server. Everything seems to be working great this way.

i did this too. much simpler and cleaner. i have my gmail account forwarding to my mobileme email account. gmail is my master "email account" for now. so far.....

mobileme wins on:
push incoming email
push contacts

google wins on:
webmail
calendar

things i'd like to see from mobileme....
the ability share groups of contacts among family sub accounts.
the ability share and make changes to people's calendars like you can on google calendars....

[SiskoKid]

Sisko,

I don't know what is wrong on your end.

I simply went to my Leopard Mail.app and created new
folders under my MAC/MOBILE ME address that now shows
up on the left column underneath my INBOX, SENT, TRASH, etc...

Go to Mailbox -> New Mailbox

Again, the folders should appear under your mac.com address
on the left column of your mail.app

Those same folders now show up on the MobileMe webpage,
the iPhone and my laptop.

Whatever mail I drag to one folder gets dragged across the board.

Nothing's wrong on my end, I was asking about SMART folders. In the Mail app you can create smart folders that automatically organize things based on certain criteria. I was sad to see that MobileMe doesn't allow this. But you're saying that folders in the Mail app sync to MobileMe and hence the iPhone.

Have you tested smart folders yet?

[NJRonbo]

Sisko,

I am sorry. I did not know you meant smart folders.

Never used them. Does not look like MM supports it.

[niximus]

Not working on the iPhone. I have another method that works
perfectly for me, but let me address what is not working on my
iPhone and perhaps you can correct it.

I set up GMAIL to forward my POP mail accounts to my MobileMe
address.

On the iPhone I set up an "Other" account. I first put all information
related to the POP account I wanted displayed in my messages other
than my MobileMe account.

Following your instructions I used the imap.gmail.com address for
incoming mail and my own personal POP server for outgoing mail
so that when I reply on my iPhone my personal address shows.

Saving all that information, the iPhone did not verify it, saying
something about SSL security and such.

Want to know what worked for me instead? I didn't set my iPhone
up under "OTHER." Instead, I set it up under MobileMe. Here are
directions that have had my accounts working flawlessly...

Create a GMAIL account

1. Go to Google Mail and create a personal account

2. After you have successfully registered, log into your GMAIL
account and click on SETTINGS in top right corner

3. Go to Accounts and scroll down to Get Mail From Other
Accounts. Fill out the information pertaining to the POP3 account
you wish GMAIL to retrieve mail from.

4. Go to Forwarding and POP and select the option Enable POP
only for mail that arrives from now on

5. Repeat above steps for additional POP addresses you wish to forward to MobileMe.

6. Final Step: Make the one account you want all your addressed mail
to appear from as the DEFAULT account under GMAIL. This is important when
replying to mail via iPhone



Set up .MAC to push on your iPhone


1. On your iPhone go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Add
An Account -> Mobile ME

2. Use your .Mac/MobileMe address and password. SAVE

3. Go back into MobileMe configuration in mail settings, click account
info and where it says smtp.me.com scroll down till you find smtp.gmail.com and use it.
You need to turn OFF the smtp.me.com and turn on or add smtp.gmail.com

You can now send mail from your iPhone with your default POP address
not related to .MAC or .ME


Set up your LEOPARD MAIL account

Now that you have MobileMe as your primary Mail.app account
on your desktop or laptop you now face the problem of not being
able to send new mail under your preferred POP account.

Under your preferred POP account, go to Mail Prefs. Accounts. Advanced.
UNCHECK "Include when automatically checking for new mail"


As I said, this works flawlessly. I could not get your method
to work as the iPhone would not save the account as set up. If
I made a mistake let me know.

Also, if you can see any disadvantages in the instructions I
provided I would love to know about it.

Thanks!

Thanks for the advice - this works - but not flawlessly :D

It works as described but because gmail keeps the send info in the email header, when my E-mails are delivered to a PC (outlook) they say

From: yourusername@gmail.com on behalf of customaddress@mydomain.com.

"Flawless" would be if they just had customaddress@mydomain.com :(

Now, getting your name to appear flawlessly can be achieved by setting up "other" accounts as is explained at the top of this thread, and then selecting the desired "from" from the list when replying (or setting the default "from" ahead of time). But that's not flawless either because when you send from that "other" account. You are no longer within the "mobileme" account and the "sent" mail does not appear in the sent items box of mobileme or in the mobileme account of your iPhone, or in your desktop IMAP client.

Granted, it's a minor flaw, but I felt the whole point of this was to unify the email experience across all clients.

The solution lies in finding an SMTP server that sets the "from" address like gmail does, but clears the originating header (Google keep the originating header info to prevent the mail from being suspected as spam).

fun fun fun :)

[d21mike]

Well I initially used the OP's instructions, but then I used yours after I figured things out a little more. Basically I did this:

I have a gmail account and a mobile me account.
In gmail, I have all my gmail forwarded to the mobile me account.

On the iphone, I set up both accounts (mobileme and gmail). All my email will arrive in my mobileme account. When I reply to my email, I set up my mobileme account to use Gmail's SMTP server. And now everything works great.

What if you have multiple emails being forward to me.com (not just 1). You then need to have multiple FROM addresses. Are you able to select which SMTP Server to use on the fly (like you can with multiple mail accounts)?

[chancee]

Why doesn't this work with hotmail? When I set the outgoing smtp server to live.com for hotmail, any email I send has the me.com in the FROM field.

However, when I try this with my gmail account, it works as described throughout this thread.

[anthonymoody]

It works because Gmail allows itself to be used as an SMTP relay, whereas live (and many others) do not. Sorry if that's the incorrect term, but there is the distinction.

TM

[Trimmer2]

Not working on the iPhone. I have another method that works
perfectly for me, but let me address what is not working on my
iPhone and perhaps you can correct it.

I set up GMAIL to forward my POP mail accounts to my MobileMe
address.

On the iPhone I set up an "Other" account. I first put all information
related to the POP account I wanted displayed in my messages other
than my MobileMe account.

Following your instructions I used the imap.gmail.com address for
incoming mail and my own personal POP server for outgoing mail
so that when I reply on my iPhone my personal address shows.

Saving all that information, the iPhone did not verify it, saying
something about SSL security and such.

Want to know what worked for me instead? I didn't set my iPhone
up under "OTHER." Instead, I set it up under MobileMe. Here are
directions that have had my accounts working flawlessly...

Create a GMAIL account

1. Go to Google Mail and create a personal account

2. After you have successfully registered, log into your GMAIL
account and click on SETTINGS in top right corner

3. Go to Accounts and scroll down to Get Mail From Other
Accounts. Fill out the information pertaining to the POP3 account
you wish GMAIL to retrieve mail from.

4. Go to Forwarding and POP and select the option Enable POP
only for mail that arrives from now on

5. Repeat above steps for additional POP addresses you wish to forward to MobileMe.

6. Final Step: Make the one account you want all your addressed mail
to appear from as the DEFAULT account under GMAIL. This is important when
replying to mail via iPhone



Set up .MAC to push on your iPhone


1. On your iPhone go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Add
An Account -> Mobile ME

2. Use your .Mac/MobileMe address and password. SAVE

3. Go back into MobileMe configuration in mail settings, click account
info and where it says smtp.me.com scroll down till you find smtp.gmail.com and use it.
You need to turn OFF the smtp.me.com and turn on or add smtp.gmail.com

You can now send mail from your iPhone with your default POP address
not related to .MAC or .ME


Set up your LEOPARD MAIL account

Now that you have MobileMe as your primary Mail.app account
on your desktop or laptop you now face the problem of not being
able to send new mail under your preferred POP account.

Under your preferred POP account, go to Mail Prefs. Accounts. Advanced.
UNCHECK "Include when automatically checking for new mail"


As I said, this works flawlessly. I could not get your method
to work as the iPhone would not save the account as set up. If
I made a mistake let me know.

Also, if you can see any disadvantages in the instructions I
provided I would love to know about it.

Thanks!

I used this set up and it appears to be working just fine for email. For some reason, my contacts, calendar, and bookmarks are not pushing or synching at all!

I've tried:

Deleting account
Reseting iPhone
Turning off push, turning back on, both on individual items and the master switch and etc... it wont' even fetch the items.

All events and contacts are in MobileMe and iMail but, my contacts and calendar are EMPTY on the iphone. No spinning icon, no nothing. It just says "No Contacts" and "No Events" on the phone.

It doesn't make sense that it's related but, when I changed my set up to the above, I lost all my stuff. Email on the other hand is working they it should!

Help!!

[tomccabe]

this blows. every time i set up both of my accounts (one gmail the other work), they both end up turning into gmail accounts. seriously wtf am i doing wrong?!?!

EDIT: i just went back and tried to change one of these accounts back to my work smtp and acct info, now they are both my work email. this is stupid. why can RIM charge NOTHING for BIS that works flawlessly (not to mention cut/paste and search emails), but i'm supposed to pay $99 (with workarounds of course) to do it on my iphone? lame. but screw getting my email the way i want, at least i have my awesome idisk LOL

[Trimmer2]

Not working on the iPhone. I have another method that works
perfectly for me, but let me address what is not working on my
iPhone and perhaps you can correct it.

I set up GMAIL to forward my POP mail accounts to my MobileMe
address.

On the iPhone I set up an "Other" account. I first put all information
related to the POP account I wanted displayed in my messages other
than my MobileMe account.

Following your instructions I used the imap.gmail.com address for
incoming mail and my own personal POP server for outgoing mail
so that when I reply on my iPhone my personal address shows.

Saving all that information, the iPhone did not verify it, saying
something about SSL security and such.

Want to know what worked for me instead? I didn't set my iPhone
up under "OTHER." Instead, I set it up under MobileMe. Here are
directions that have had my accounts working flawlessly...

Create a GMAIL account

1. Go to Google Mail and create a personal account

2. After you have successfully registered, log into your GMAIL
account and click on SETTINGS in top right corner

3. Go to Accounts and scroll down to Get Mail From Other
Accounts. Fill out the information pertaining to the POP3 account
you wish GMAIL to retrieve mail from.

4. Go to Forwarding and POP and select the option Enable POP
only for mail that arrives from now on

5. Repeat above steps for additional POP addresses you wish to forward to MobileMe.

6. Final Step: Make the one account you want all your addressed mail
to appear from as the DEFAULT account under GMAIL. This is important when
replying to mail via iPhone



Set up .MAC to push on your iPhone


1. On your iPhone go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Add
An Account -> Mobile ME

2. Use your .Mac/MobileMe address and password. SAVE

3. Go back into MobileMe configuration in mail settings, click account
info and where it says smtp.me.com scroll down till you find smtp.gmail.com and use it.
You need to turn OFF the smtp.me.com and turn on or add smtp.gmail.com

You can now send mail from your iPhone with your default POP address
not related to .MAC or .ME


Set up your LEOPARD MAIL account

Now that you have MobileMe as your primary Mail.app account
on your desktop or laptop you now face the problem of not being
able to send new mail under your preferred POP account.

Under your preferred POP account, go to Mail Prefs. Accounts. Advanced.
UNCHECK "Include when automatically checking for new mail"


As I said, this works flawlessly. I could not get your method
to work as the iPhone would not save the account as set up. If
I made a mistake let me know.

Also, if you can see any disadvantages in the instructions I
provided I would love to know about it.

Thanks!

This set up has been working VERY well for me today. I added a few more things though.

I also forwarded my POP mail account to Gmail as opposed to Gmail getting the POP mail.

I deleted ALL other accounts and started from scratch and one by one, brought them up. I could have had a problem that I downloaded a VERY early (Thurs night) release of MM and 2.0 so it could have been the problem.

VERY happy with PUSH and has been flawless all day for me.

[NJRonbo]

Trimmer,

What exactly did you change so I know what to amend on my
own personal setup?

Yes, this works perfectly but I do see a huge lag on my laptop
where it does not update the mail as fast as my desktop or iPhone.
Have heard other complaints as well where the laptop doesn't push
but rather syncs and it doesn't do it immediately upon booting.

I also forwarded my POP mail account to Gmail as opposed to Gmail getting the POP mail.

Interesting. How does this change things?

I take it this forwarding of your POP to GMAIL can be done from your
ISP Providers webpage. Yes?

[Juo100]

Thanks for the advice - this works - but not
The solution lies in finding an SMTP server that sets the "from" address like gmail does, but clears the originating header (Google keep the originating header info to prevent the mail from being suspected as spam).

fun fun fun :)

Does anyone know of such a service, because im having a similar issue.
Googles SMTP server attaches this "on behalf of" stuff within Microsoft products.

I made a feature request for it to be implemented into fastmail.fm http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=53342

For me this would solve all my problems, custom domain forwards to mobile me, I read the email and then it sends my response to an SMTP server that forces the "from" field to become my custom domain.

[Trimmer2]

Trimmer,

What exactly did you change so I know what to amend on my
own personal setup?

Yes, this works perfectly but I do see a huge lag on my laptop
where it does not update the mail as fast as my desktop or iPhone.
Have heard other complaints as well where the laptop doesn't push
but rather syncs and it doesn't do it immediately upon booting.



Interesting. How does this change things?

I take it this forwarding of your POP to GMAIL can be done from your
ISP Providers webpage. Yes?

I did exactly as you suggested but added going to my ISP and forwarding mail to my dummy Gmail account. This way, mail moves to Gmail faster.

The only delays I'm seeing are with calendar and address updates as iMail isn't set up to sync with them immediately. I think it does it at 15 minute intervals witht he "automatic" setting.

[IcemanMac]

Not working on the iPhone. I have another method that works
perfectly for me, but let me address what is not working on my
iPhone and perhaps you can correct it.

I set up GMAIL to forward my POP mail accounts to my MobileMe
address.

On the iPhone I set up an "Other" account. I first put all information
related to the POP account I wanted displayed in my messages other
than my MobileMe account.

Following your instructions I used the imap.gmail.com address for
incoming mail and my own personal POP server for outgoing mail
so that when I reply on my iPhone my personal address shows.

Saving all that information, the iPhone did not verify it, saying
something about SSL security and such.

Want to know what worked for me instead? I didn't set my iPhone
up under "OTHER." Instead, I set it up under MobileMe. Here are
directions that have had my accounts working flawlessly...

Create a GMAIL account

1. Go to Google Mail and create a personal account

2. After you have successfully registered, log into your GMAIL
account and click on SETTINGS in top right corner

3. Go to Accounts and scroll down to Get Mail From Other
Accounts. Fill out the information pertaining to the POP3 account
you wish GMAIL to retrieve mail from.

4. Go to Forwarding and POP and select the option Enable POP
only for mail that arrives from now on

5. Repeat above steps for additional POP addresses you wish to forward to MobileMe.

6. Final Step: Make the one account you want all your addressed mail
to appear from as the DEFAULT account under GMAIL. This is important when
replying to mail via iPhone



Set up .MAC to push on your iPhone


1. On your iPhone go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Add
An Account -> Mobile ME

2. Use your .Mac/MobileMe address and password. SAVE

3. Go back into MobileMe configuration in mail settings, click account
info and where it says smtp.me.com scroll down till you find smtp.gmail.com and use it.
You need to turn OFF the smtp.me.com and turn on or add smtp.gmail.com

You can now send mail from your iPhone with your default POP address
not related to .MAC or .ME


Set up your LEOPARD MAIL account

Now that you have MobileMe as your primary Mail.app account
on your desktop or laptop you now face the problem of not being
able to send new mail under your preferred POP account.

Under your preferred POP account, go to Mail Prefs. Accounts. Advanced.
UNCHECK "Include when automatically checking for new mail"


As I said, this works flawlessly. I could not get your method
to work as the iPhone would not save the account as set up. If
I made a mistake let me know.

Also, if you can see any disadvantages in the instructions I
provided I would love to know about it.

Thanks!


Okay, I followed these directions, but the Leopard Mail instructions are a little thin.

My iPhone (actually ipod touch) works 'flawlessly'. I send and receive email using my 'other email account' but everything syncs perfectly with MobileMe.

However, with Leopard Mail on my desktop, I still have to choose which email account I am replying from. That is not happenning automatically. Is this how it should work, or am I missing something with my setup for Leopard Mail.

[EmptyPockets]

I have an existing gmail account that I just want forwarded to my @me.com account. I have gmail setup to forward but it does not go through at all. What do i have to do to make this work?