Comments on: Powerful clever MobileMe http://donaldjenkins.com/2008/08/powerful-clever-mobileme/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:56:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Donald Jenkins http://donaldjenkins.com/2008/08/powerful-clever-mobileme/#comment-176 Donald Jenkins Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:31:23 +0000 http://donaldjenkins.com/?p=67#comment-176 @Bill Vegas: I wouldn't describe it as "pointing" another email account at MobileMe. On an iPhone, you can natively access any IMAP mail server directly, and <i>pull</i> your email from it at whatever interval you set. I use Google Apps Premier Edition, because it means I can keep my own domain and use with my iPhone. What this means is there's no need to <i>forward</i> email from one account to another. Just set up your phone to pull incoming from whatever IMAP mail server you want to use. Forwarding and hiding addresses, depending on which SMTP server you use to <i>send</i> outgoing mail, can put your messages at risk of being classed as spam. @Bill Vegas: I wouldn’t describe it as “pointing” another email account at MobileMe. On an iPhone, you can natively access any IMAP mail server directly, and pull your email from it at whatever interval you set. I use Google Apps Premier Edition, because it means I can keep my own domain and use with my iPhone.

What this means is there’s no need to forward email from one account to another. Just set up your phone to pull incoming from whatever IMAP mail server you want to use. Forwarding and hiding addresses, depending on which SMTP server you use to send outgoing mail, can put your messages at risk of being classed as spam.

]]> By: Bill Vegas http://donaldjenkins.com/2008/08/powerful-clever-mobileme/#comment-175 Bill Vegas Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:42:39 +0000 http://donaldjenkins.com/?p=67#comment-175 So until MobileMe does full fledged email hosting I will just point or forward my current gmail account to MobileMe. I have my own domain (ie mymail@mydomain.com) and have my Apple mail client setup so that nobody is the wiser that my mail is hosted at gmail. My gMail address is hidden in the background and all email is received accordingly. But what happens once I forward email to my MobileMe account? Is it possible to configure my iPhone so as that 'mymail@mydomain.com account is seen as the sender and repyto address? So until MobileMe does full fledged email hosting I will just point or forward my current gmail account to MobileMe. I have my own domain (ie mymail@mydomain.com) and have my Apple mail client setup so that nobody is the wiser that my mail is hosted at gmail. My gMail address is hidden in the background and all email is received accordingly.

But what happens once I forward email to my MobileMe account? Is it possible to configure my iPhone so as that ‘mymail@mydomain.com account is seen as the sender and repyto address?

]]> By: Andrew Min http://donaldjenkins.com/2008/08/powerful-clever-mobileme/#comment-5 Andrew Min Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:52:50 +0000 http://donaldjenkins.com/?p=67#comment-5 Like you said, they already have some of the DNS in place with their iWeb Publish, right? So it should be fairly easy to set up email the same way. Why not??? Like you said, they already have some of the DNS in place with their iWeb Publish, right? So it should be fairly easy to set up email the same way. Why not???

]]> By: Donald Jenkins http://donaldjenkins.com/2008/08/powerful-clever-mobileme/#comment-7 Donald Jenkins Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:48:47 +0000 http://donaldjenkins.com/?p=67#comment-7 @Andrew Min: Offering a basic email hosting service for custom domains is very simple, yes; it basically just involves fiddling with DNS, like you said.<br><br>Developing a fully-fledged competitor to Google Apps —because that, basically, is what Apple would have to do if it wanted to enter that segment of the market —is another proposition altogether. There would be much more than meets the eye in it, although I actually think Google's Premier package is a rip-off at $50 compared with Apple's $79 for MobileMe. Apple has the essentials of the package thrown in already and could actually move in pretty soon if they dispensed with offering the Office-equivalent suite that Google includes in Apps (and which I think is very overrated). @Andrew Min: Offering a basic email hosting service for custom domains is very simple, yes; it basically just involves fiddling with DNS, like you said.

Developing a fully-fledged competitor to Google Apps —because that, basically, is what Apple would have to do if it wanted to enter that segment of the market —is another proposition altogether. There would be much more than meets the eye in it, although I actually think Google's Premier package is a rip-off at $50 compared with Apple's $79 for MobileMe. Apple has the essentials of the package thrown in already and could actually move in pretty soon if they dispensed with offering the Office-equivalent suite that Google includes in Apps (and which I think is very overrated).

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