Right, tearing my hair out with this problem which I've had for far too long now.
Basically I need:
1 main personal email acount,
1 company email address,
Both of which I would like to be able to access on my main pc and my iPhone.
I would like to have both of them pushed to the iPhone in the inbuilt mail app to get the notifications. I would like to be able to reply from both of them so it shows the reply from it's own account.
The way I have had it set up recently is that my personal email is a hotmail acount, and the company email is forwarded directly to a 2nd hotmail acount. Both of these are accessable on the pc with Windows Live Desktop Mail, but I'm having to use mBoxMail on the iPhone to access them. It is imap tho with works fine from both devices, but on the phone Ihave to load up the app to check for mail each time as it will not auto check, this is the main problem.
I've just set up a mobile me account for my personal email, which means I get push email on the iPhone and it can be checked via webmail and also to desktop client. First issue is that in outlook 2007 it insists on putting its own sent / junk / deleted folders in place, so when I then log onto the webmail or on the iphone I get extra folders listed doing nothing which is already annoying. I've found that using Thunderbird seems to solve this by allowing to remove unneeded folders.
So I think the personal email is sorted this way.
The problem is the work email address, I can have this as either a hosted mail box, but it's only pop access which is useless, or just have it forwarded to another account. The first thought is to have a 2nd mobile me account but that would be another £60 a year, and the main problem of when replying to a mail it send from the mobile me address and doesn't show as sent from the work email.
I've tried a compromise by sending the work email to the personal mobile me account and to set a rule to put it in it's own folder. But that won't work as there are no server side rules available on mobile me, just client side which are not available on the iPhone. Also it still won't let me reply correctly.
I could leave the work email forwarding to the hotmail account and reply from webmail if I need to (which to be fair isn't that often, it's more for info to me) and have it also forward to the mobile me account for the notification so I know to log into the webmail to reply if needed, but I still can't get it to a separate folder via a rule, and I don't want personal and work email in the same inbox.
I've tried loads of ways round this before, I've used izymail with the current hotmail accounts via pop and also imap with the iphone in built mail app but it's very unrelliable which is a bit off for a £15 service per account. I've also tried using gmail instead of hotmail but that doesn't offer push email to any device, so the battery on the iPhone lasts a few hours as it's set to check for mail every 15 minutes.
I just can't seem to find a way to make it work relliably and how I want it to.
If you've read this far and have any suggestions I'd be very glad to hear them.
Thanks
Nick
Basically I need:
1 main personal email acount,
1 company email address,
Both of which I would like to be able to access on my main pc and my iPhone.
I would like to have both of them pushed to the iPhone in the inbuilt mail app to get the notifications. I would like to be able to reply from both of them so it shows the reply from it's own account.
The way I have had it set up recently is that my personal email is a hotmail acount, and the company email is forwarded directly to a 2nd hotmail acount. Both of these are accessable on the pc with Windows Live Desktop Mail, but I'm having to use mBoxMail on the iPhone to access them. It is imap tho with works fine from both devices, but on the phone Ihave to load up the app to check for mail each time as it will not auto check, this is the main problem.
I've just set up a mobile me account for my personal email, which means I get push email on the iPhone and it can be checked via webmail and also to desktop client. First issue is that in outlook 2007 it insists on putting its own sent / junk / deleted folders in place, so when I then log onto the webmail or on the iphone I get extra folders listed doing nothing which is already annoying. I've found that using Thunderbird seems to solve this by allowing to remove unneeded folders.
So I think the personal email is sorted this way.
The problem is the work email address, I can have this as either a hosted mail box, but it's only pop access which is useless, or just have it forwarded to another account. The first thought is to have a 2nd mobile me account but that would be another £60 a year, and the main problem of when replying to a mail it send from the mobile me address and doesn't show as sent from the work email.
I've tried a compromise by sending the work email to the personal mobile me account and to set a rule to put it in it's own folder. But that won't work as there are no server side rules available on mobile me, just client side which are not available on the iPhone. Also it still won't let me reply correctly.
I could leave the work email forwarding to the hotmail account and reply from webmail if I need to (which to be fair isn't that often, it's more for info to me) and have it also forward to the mobile me account for the notification so I know to log into the webmail to reply if needed, but I still can't get it to a separate folder via a rule, and I don't want personal and work email in the same inbox.
I've tried loads of ways round this before, I've used izymail with the current hotmail accounts via pop and also imap with the iphone in built mail app but it's very unrelliable which is a bit off for a £15 service per account. I've also tried using gmail instead of hotmail but that doesn't offer push email to any device, so the battery on the iPhone lasts a few hours as it's set to check for mail every 15 minutes.
I just can't seem to find a way to make it work relliably and how I want it to.
If you've read this far and have any suggestions I'd be very glad to hear them.
Thanks
Nick
