August 21, 2007 at 6:27 pm · Filed under Design & Web Geekery
I’ve recently revised my Gmail, IMAP, and iPhones Tutorial. It was brought to my attention that there was an issue with MS Exchange which made emails sent using my set up read as if they were from: “Colin [my gmail addy]; on behalf of; Colin [my catcubed addy]”. So after screaming how much I hated Exchange, I figured out another solution (which is basically a slight revision of my first setup).
Change to outgoing server setup
Now instead of using gmail as the outgoing SMTP server, I am using my public facing email address SMTP server for outgoing. Also I have “Always BCC Myself” turned on so that sent email appears in gmail (mail sent back this way appears just like normal sent mail in gmail and is connected to conversation threads like normal — gmail’s magic that way). I also added a brief benefits section, added notes on optional configurations, and cleaned the tutorial up a little to make it easier to follow.
All these changes were made on the main Gmail, IMAP, and iPhones Tutorial post. As this is the main page being linked to and commented on by everyone, any future revisions will continue to be made on that page.
Tip Jar
If you are one of the wonderful people who added to the tip jar (located over in the right sidebar under my photo), I will email you noting this fix and will also notify of any future revisions to the tutorial page — think of it like getting free upgrades.
.Mac Issues
It should be noted that the .Mac issue has still not been resolved, and I haven’t had time to look into it, so it is not recommended to use .Mac for your IMAP at this time.
Stage Left…
OK that’s it for me! I’m signing out for a couple weeks for the big dumb dusty blinky campout!
July 31, 2007 at 11:33 am · Filed under Design & Web Geekery
Seth reported problems with sending through their IMAP account do to the email in the header being different. This was mentioned in the comments section of my Gmail, IMAP, and iPhones - Part 2 - The Tutorial post.
I’m assuming that some ISPs allow this and some don’t. Fortunately, as Jared mentioned, there is an easy way around this by using Gmail as your outgoing SMTP server. This also has the advantage that you don’t need to CC yourself on all emails, and as such you might want to set it up this way anyway. However, it has the disadvantage that sent mail is not also stored on your IMAP account—this is not a big deal as it is stored in gmail.
I’ve updated my old post with this option.
July 23, 2007 at 2:18 pm · Filed under Design & Web Geekery
As I posted previously, I’ve been experimenting with finding a my perfect iPhone email set up. Since then I’ve made a few changes and I’m really happy with the results. As such, I thought I’d post a bit better of a tutorial since it’s a bit convoluted from the back-end—though still simple to use and the complexity is invisible during daily use.
This post has been modified since it was first published to reflect alternate approaches and improved techniques. I will continue to improve this post in the future to fix any bugs that emerge.
Tutorial Revision (8/21/07): Because of a discovered issue with MS Exchange, I have revised how outgoing emails are handled.
Benefits to this system
- Spam trapped via gmail’s awesome spam filter
- Use your personal domain name address as your public-facing address (i.e. from and reply)
- Read and send email using iPhone and Mail.app with
- Email marked as read, deleted, or moved is automatically synced between iPhone and Mail.app via IMAP
- Gmail archives all email both received and sent
How it works from the front-end
- My catcubed.com email is my main public email address, but I also still receive messages sent to my Gmail.
- All incoming messages (including my catcubed.com account) are spam filtered via gmail’s fabulous spam filter
- I use my iPhone and/or Apple Mail for normal day to day email reading/sending
- Personally, I read email, reply if needed, and then delete; thus, keeping my inbox clutter-free (in keeping with a GTD approach). If I need to review an old email, I go to Gmail where all my emails both incoming and outgoing are automatically archived.
- Alternately, if deleting is not your style, you can set up your Mail.app to automatically move mail to an archive folder on your computer.
- Additionally to reduce digital clutter, I’ve manually set it up so that all mailing lists are filter to remain in gmail instead of forwarding my iPhone. I go to gmail to check mailing lists.
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July 19, 2007 at 12:27 am · Filed under uncategorized + Design & Web Geekery
I’m full of big geeky joy because I got my convoluted email situation all working exactly how I wanted it!
On Edit: I’ve updated my approach to this and written a better description plus tutorial in a new post. I suggest you read the new post and skip this one unless you are interested in the process I went through to get to my current solution.
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