MobileMe and Gmail pseudo work around

[amro]

This guy posted a pseudo workaround:
http://blog.daveberube.com/post/how-to-get-push-gmail-on-your-iphone-20-with-mobileme

It involves changing your SMTP server (outgoing mail server) on your iPhone.

Essentially you setup:
1. Gmail to forward all mail to your username@me.com
2. iPhone's me.com account "other smtp server" to smtp.gmail.com (with account info)
3. Turn off me.com smtp mail server

Since Gmail is my ONLY address I use, this will work fine for me.

 

[AJ Muni]

been using this method forever...works great

 

[Van Wildonher]

I read it doesn't push like this. Anybody confirm it does?

 

[amro]

My quick test now just worked.

 

[admiralawesome1]

Does it work for Google Apps email (me@mydomain.com)?

I'd answer the question myself but I haven't been able to get my hands on a 3G iPhone yet....

 

[stevehp]

Will this work on 1.1.4?

I have MobileMe, just not 2.0 yet.

 

[JD914]

I read it doesn't push like this. Anybody confirm it does?

It does work. Instant push and you can even reply with Gmail instead of MobileMe appearing as reply email.

 

[Knolly]

Eh... I've been trying to get this working for a few days but only a small amount of all of my actual email gets sent to my phone. Ripoff aye? Haha.

 

[yalag]

When I reply from the mobileme account on the iphone, the "from" field still chooses the mobileme SMTP server, any one else?

 

[albeli]

Thanks for posting this. I just set it up and it works great.