IPhone Email Solution (Long and Detailed)
This is a long and detailed brain dump of how I got email to be really usable between my laptop and my iPhone. If you are not happy with your email setup on the iPhone, read on...
Before I bought the iPhone I followed (Apple's?) advice on getting things moved to the world of Gmail and more-or-less liked the concept. I had 3 domains plus my ISP email plus a variety of "anti-spammer" addresses forwarded to multiple Gmail accounts but all ultimately filter down to one gmail account. (Why so many addresses? One for personal, one for eBay, a couple for a few projects I've created that have a web presence, and some bogus to avoid spam when signing up for whatever, etc.)
Gmail worked fine - has a great spam filter - all emails came into it and with POP on one machine I was happy. Enter iPhone...
After using the iPhone for a few days I quickly realized (as others did) that Gmail's (non-standard?) POP implementation was not going to work. I couldn't send emails to myself without logging into the web-based Gmail to find them. Too many (old) emails were downloading at once (a problem later solved). I would delete an email on my iPhone and then on my laptop later have to delete the same email. I thought "Why on earth has Google not implemented IMAP?"
So the IMAP search began. My goal was to have a single IMAP account that all my mail could forward to that would allow me to delete once and have multiple (laptop and iPhone) apps in sync with one another.
fastmail.fm seemed OK. It would cost money and to be honest the bandwidth limits kind of scared me off but in my tests the service seemed to work fine.
.Mac was definitely a possibility. But since I really only needed email capabilities the cost was a little steep. In a short test it worked fine.
I finally stumbled upon the fact that my AIM account had FREE email associated with it @aim.com and most importantly it was IMAP! Also, the limits were reasonably high and it worked just fine.
On to the configuration...although I've gone through a few implementations of this setup - I've finally settled on one that I'm pretty happy with. Your mileage may vary but this seems to really work! I'll try to summarize...
THE BOTTOM LINE...
ALL EMAIL ACCOUNTS FORWARD to my main ISP email (earthlink in my case). My single earthlink account then forwards to my aim.com email (IMAP!) account. On the iPhone I have a single email configuration that pulls incoming mail from the aim.com IMAP account and uses the SMTP auth server via earthlink to send outgoing mail. The iPhone always sends as my primary ISP email address which is my "main" email address anyway so that works out well.
Earthlink will send even when on EDGE and off their native network - I would imagine that any ISP that has an SMTP auth server will let you send remotely like this but the only way to know for sure is to test your specific configuration.
On my laptop (PowerBook) I have the same setup. An account that pulls IMAP from aim.com and sends via rarthlink's SMTP auth server.
NOTE: You can also use gmail's SMTP auth server and gmail will allow you to alias which may be convenient for some users.
Some things I found along the way that caused me problems that might save you some hassle:
- Aforementioned Gmail POP issues and lack of IMAP
- Gmail won't forward to aim.com no matter how hard you try
- fastmail.fm (unless I paid) wouldn't let me alias my address
Some good things:
- Gmail has great spam filters but in my case it caused an "extra hop" and I figured Earthlink and AIM spam filters would suffice - so I took gmail out of the forwarding equation - so far so good.
- AIM.com - IMAP - who knew!
So there you have it - hope this helps someone!
Good to know that Gmail will forward to aol.com addresses. I considered setting one of those up instead of the aim account but since things worked out with my ISP account (earthlink) it was all good for me.
Also, in my case, earthlink wasn't really the intermediary...it's always been my primary. Gmail was the intermediary - and although I like their spam filters and they have the best web UI of earthlink or aim - I'm willing to sacrifice not using them for "simplicity!"
I agree that .mac and the iPhone are a good match. I just didn't want to have to spend another $100 a year.
I also agree that a blackberry-style solution would be awesome on the iPhone. Hopefully they are working on this with either Yahoo or Google.
What I want is simple...IMAP...no ads...and PUSH would be nice...oh yea...and free
Glad some folks found this useful - so my Saturday ignoring the family was not for nothing!
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