Comments on: Workaround for iPhone Users with Gmail Custom Addresses

by: Rich Rosen

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:48:09 +0100

Gmail can certainly be configured to fetch mail from other accounts, but only using POP. I could've sworn I'd had old AOL accounts configured so that Gmail would fetch email through IMAP but it must be my failing memory. If you have POP as an option, you can elect to leave your messages where they are on the original server when Gmail fetches them. But it's easy to set things up so that you only need to check Gmail for new messages, and not bother connecting manually to any older "legacy" accounts.

by: supermiller

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:29:21 +0100

I'm curious if you can have gmail access a private imap email account...then have your iphone check this gmail account as well. I currently have my iphone checking my imap account directly, but this does not keep me in sync with gmail. I'd prefer to use gmail when I'm not using my iphone. Any ideas?

by: Dimmy

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:55:13 +0100

I found this post searching for the ability to use my custom address from Yahoo mail. I have exactly the same situation while using a Yahoo Plus account. I have a custom default address I use when I log on using a PC browser. Yahoo Mail app does not let me specify a custom From address. My workaround is setting up a second server (with the credentials of my custom address) within the Mail app and when I compose a new message, I can pick the custom address as From. This approach works, BUT (a) the sent email goes in the second server's Sent folder, and (b) everytime the Mail app check for email it checks both servers, which takes longer... If anyone has a workaround, even a jailbroken mod, I'll kiss their feet!

by: jamie cullum

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:22:19 +0100

Excellent post! I recently did a post about using a service like Gmail with Fastmail so that one could get push email on the Palm Treo (with Chatter) running on Palm OS without needing an exchange server. Works well with what you explained as well.