Mobile me is a waste...why did they do this?

[yoomy]

i have found a solution for the problem, but it only works with the mail app not with the iphone.

i got my very own name@name.com email adress which i forward to my new mobile me account. then in the mail app i added my name@name.com account but deactivated it (this is needed for the smtp server). i now added name@name.com as additional reply email adress in the same line with name@me.com, name@mac.com.

i now receive all my mail via push and can reply with whatever adress i want to.

 

[lancejorton]

I don't understand why people who have non-Mac email addresses get so upset and blame APPLE because their email isn't pushed to their iPhone. Apple didn't limit anything; they designed a solution for THEIR email service. It's not Apple's fault that your other four email accounts don't push to your iPhone. Yahoo made it happen.

And Apple never stated anywhere that MobileMe would enable your other email accounts to get pushed to the iPhone.

No, it appears that the iPhone software only supports Push email from Exchange and MobileMe. That is the issue here. I have the same problem. My host supports Push email but the iPhone does not. Hopefully in 2.1. I submitted a feature request.

 

[lancejorton]

The OP has a very valid point. mobileme doesn't offer a customized reply-to address, forcing you to use the me.com domain instead of your established email address. He is not complaining that his current addresses don't push.

Offering a customized reply-to or from address has been standard fare for paid email accounts for a long, long time. It's a big oversight not to include this from the get-go because it stops many people including me from using it because I need to maintain the appearance of my current email address.

Yahoo plus allows multiple customized reply to addresses (ie. work, personal, e-commerce addresses) and also pushes to the iphone just as well as mobileme, and syncs your contacts to yahoo contacts. The only thing it doesn't do is sync calendars.

Agreed. I'm surprised this is not a feature. Unfortunately, it will now require an iPhone software update to fix which may take longer.

 

[lancejorton]

i have found a solution for the problem, but it only works with the mail app not with the iphone.

i got my very own name@name.com email adress which i forward to my new mobile me account. then in the mail app i added my name@name.com account but deactivated it (this is needed for the smtp server). i now added name@name.com as additional reply email adress in the same line with name@me.com, name@mac.com.

i now receive all my mail via push and can reply with whatever adress i want to.

but you probably still have to select your From account for each email, right?

 

[chairguru22]

SO I talked to a guy at apple. The only way to get push email is through the @me.com email. You can not set up any other emails to receive push. They can only be forwarded to @me.com to get the push feature. This sucks because if you forward them to @me.com you can't reply from the specific email.

This is how all push email works. Apple can only control what their servers do.

 

[yoomy]

but you probably still have to select your From account for each email, right?

you hit new email or reply and get a dropdown list of email adresses, there you can select the appropiate adress. but if you received an email to name@name.com and you hit reply it will automaticly select that one as reply.

 

[eye.surgeon]

This is how all push email works. Apple can only control what their servers do.

I think you're missing the issue here. The real rub is there is no option to use different aliases or "from" addresses in mobileme on the web.

The more I poke around mobileme on the web the less I care though. It seems quite undeveloped/slow and not really a viable replacement for the new ajax Yahoo mail plus for example. For occasional use no problem, but for those that use web based email exclusively be it gmail, yahoo, or what have you (frankly I can't imagine any need to be tied to a desktop email client in this day and age) it's just not in the top tier.

 

[sgrcts]

eye surg

desktop mail is so far superior to webmail, that would be the reason. its not even close.

 

[coolfactor]

You can send FROM any email address you want using your MobilMe @me.com account from within Mail.app. Just list them in Preferences, as shown in the attached image.

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to carry over to the online Mail client. You can let Apple know you want this here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/mac/tm.html

 

[DamFu]

In fact, the iphone handles email about 1/10th as well as blackberry overall. I'm regretting buying this thing already, and .me is a big reason why.

That is relative. I work in a group with about a dozen Blackberry users. My iPhone handles email better than all of them. I get my corporate email a good 15-30 seconds on my iPhone BEFORE they get it on their devices.

If you are regretting the purchase of your phone and if .me is a big reason why, you still have 12 days to return it.

 

[robbyx]

SO I talked to a guy at apple. The only way to get push email is through the @me.com email. You can not set up any other emails to receive push. They can only be forwarded to @me.com to get the push feature. This sucks because if you forward them to @me.com you can't reply from the specific email.

Not entirely true. Just create email accounts for each address on your phone. Forward all to me.com for the push feature, but, when replying, select the appropriate account. Not perfect, I know, but it should work.

Er, nevermind. It seems others have answered the question! However, I would like to point out that it appears that, when putting all addresses in Email Address field, the Sender Name is always the same. So, if you're using an alias or generic/anon Yahoo, etc. address, your primary account Sender name will be used, not the Sender name specified for that email account. Defeats the purpose of aliases in my mind.

 

[DamFu]

Shouldn't the consumer be on the consumers side, so we can all get the best product?

Why is that? Not all of us are having the same issues that you are. Why should we stomp our feet and take the same stand when some of us aren't the ones with the issues?

I love the people that feel they have to qualify their statements with how long they have been an Apple owner. The fact that you have owned an Apple for 20+ years has no bearing on this at all.

 

[stomer]

The OP has a very valid point. mobileme doesn't offer a customized reply-to address

Is it such a problem to setup a gmail account, specify extra accounts in the accounts tab, and then use gmail's smtp server to send your mail?

That way your sent emails are stored both in your gmail account and your mobileme account.