Since I have such an elaberate setup for email:
- I have a Google Apps Premier Account
- I forward all of my email from my major domains to the Google Apps account
- I have a few other Gmail accounts that forward to the GA account
- I also have all work e-mail forwarded to the GA account for archiving, accessibility and searching
The iPhone allows for makes setting up e-mail so easy for a normal GMail account, even Google Apps accounts work through the basic “GMail” setup but there are a few problems:
- The default account is not used. Meaning your reply-to or from address will be defaulted to @gmail.com, @yahoo.com or the @googleappsdomain.com.
- No filtering
One problem just creates the other for me, since I could always just use pop for the GA account the reply to would be setup correctly but I would be getting too much e-mail–including a double of my work e-mail–(since I have IMAP setup for work on another account on the iPhone) so a filter is necessary.
Also a lot of people might want to change that “From:” address if using one of the other methods of e-mail accounts on the iPhone.
Filtering:
- Create another GMail account that wont ever be used.
- Filter the e-mail you want to be sent to the newly created GMail account.
- Use the POP method below instead of using the default “Gmail” setup
From/Reply-to change:
On the iPhone create an “other” e-mail account, the type will be POP3.
Settings>Mail>Add Account>Other
Choose “Pop” out of IMAP, POP and Exchange buttons.
For the “Account Information” give your real “Name” and for your “Address” give the FROM address you really want to use. The key here is that you can now specify a FROM “Address” which is NOT defaulted to your Yahoo!, GMail or AIM account.
Here are the other details for GMail accounts:Incoming Mail Server
Host Name pop.gmail.com
Username your.name@gmail.com
Password yourPassword
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) …
Host Name smtp.gmail.com
Username your.name@gmail.com
Password yourPassword