The perfect iPhone email setup

I think the 'over-complication' is to get Gmail (POP) working as Push E-Mail (IMAP) so that you don't have to 'check' for new mail.

If you set up your Gmail to forward to an IMAP email address it will PUSH it to your iPhone as it arrives so you don't have to wait the 15 minutes I believe the iPhone can set as the minimum 'send/receive' timeframe.

I'm confused, why would you just use POP, gmail offers it for free, and it works nicely, I have 3 gmail accounts on my phone (2 business Gapps and one personal Gmail, all use POP, and all send form the correct address, all don't send messeges back to me, and all keep a sent copy in my mailbox. You guys have really over complicated this. Or maybe you doing something extra special here, but I don't see the use in making it this overly complicated when you can just use pop.

Thanks for the post. I've been using this set up for a while now and I've been loving it still (and you encounter none of the problems Petar Smilajkov is having). Rick's comment is a good one. Currently, I just read and delete (letting Gmail be my storage), but if I ever shift that strategy and keep it in the IMAP, filtering in Apple Mail is a good suggestion.

p.s. I'm pretty damn liberal and I've got no problem with the picture. Hell, I've seen homeless people with signs that say things almost exactly like that.

Hey there...

I was also worried about Gmail but check this out. I do not use Gmail itself, but my personal mail is hosted by Gmail and it actually works with iPhone better than I expected. I set it up as a regular POP account! All mails come one. Once I answer, I automatically get the sent message back in my INBOX - which at first seemed ODD, but when I went to Gmail itself I realized it's because the conversation was updated with my response. Therefore, Gmail in my case works REALLY GOOD with iPhone. No other phone was ever doing this.

Try it out, you'll like it :) FORGET iMap!

P.S> Before doing so though, go to Gmail settings. Disable your POP access, then re-enable it and make sure you check "for all messages that arrive from this moment on". This way you wont get a bazillion messages the first time you connect. Deleting them one by one on iPhone is Ridiculous.

Yes, this works with .Mac IMAP. My setup is similar, though with an added account to deal with. My mail has been going to a SNET(now AT&T)/Yahoo account for a few years, so I have GMail grab all of the mail from that account, and then anything that gets through GMail's SPAM filter gets forwarded to my .Mac account. My home iMac and iPhone both just check .Mac for mail.

This actually works very well - I've set up folders on .Mac, and I leave my home machine running while I'm at work (it's usually busy converting video or similar). If I leave Mail running on the iMac, it sorts all of my mail into the proper folders. I do it this way because the iPhone only sees new mail in the Inbox folder, so sorting via filters on the server causes problems. This way, the mail hits the Inbox and is usually seen by the iPhone before my iMac gets it and sorts it properly, and I don't have to deal with moving the mail to the proper folders manually.

Wow, what kind of crap is that picture? One of the most overpriced/overhyped things ever and you take a picture of a homeless person and use it as a joke?

Was that shot taken with an iPhone? Did you at least toss the guy $20 or $40 for the use of his image?

Anyone know how/if you could set this up to use .Mac as the IMAP account?

I am in complete agreement with J.T. King, the picture is crass, insensitive and I have to wonder at the kind of lame brain who would do this type of thing.

After seeing your picture, I thought you'd like my video of begging for an iphone on the street with my daughter...
Check it out here:
http://www.iphoneplease.com

Wow. Kind of an insensitive picture, you jerks. I like this website a lot, but for cryin' out loud... Get real.