Comments on: Gmail and MobileMe – Living Together in Perfect Harmony

By: mighty55

mighty55 — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:07:05 +0000

Also Google Sync resolves a lot of this: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer...

cheers

By: chanelle alvarez

chanelle alvarez — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:36:48 +0000

i found your article very useful but the issue i having is when i login to me.com i want to see my gmail not only on my computer but in my mobileme cloud... it gives me the option but im not sure what it is i need to plug in apple told me to contact gmail but i have not received a response

By: blake7

blake7 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:35:02 +0000

Good article and one I have followed and set-up. Just to confirm one point - if I received a message to joe@example.com and I want to reply from the iPhone do I have to include the example.com email account. Mac Mail makes it easy to reply by adding multiple domains to the set-up, however, this does not seem to be an option on the iphone. That being the case this is not really a good iphone solution - more an issue with the iphone.

Thanks for getting this far with trying to get to a single mail account, while trying to keep multiple domain addresses!!!!

By: matt

matt — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:39:12 +0000

Hey Jordan! This is great! I got so frustrated with the mobile me web interface, when I had to type longer emails than I wanted to on my phone. I got all this working.

2 questions for you, if you have time...
1. if all I want to do is use gmail / mobileme for checking e-mail thru the web, but leave my iphone / Mac the same, do I need to set up the push and other accounts?

2. Can you sync the calendars thru mobile me / gmail?

Thanks a lot!

By: hoody

hoody — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:30:19 +0000

ok, I must be stupid as I can't follow half the instructions above. I've set my gmail to forward to my mobileme account, easy. I've then set my gmail account up in Mail as an IMAP account.

Then I'm stuck. Where do you set the outgoing smtp account? In mobileme? If so via the me.com site or in the preferences in the Mac (I cant see any option in either?)

I'm just trying to sync my iMac, Macbook and iPhone so they are all in showing the same gmail no matter what device I've viewed/deleted mails on.... I know have no mail coming into my Mail account on my macbook

By: Name

Name — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:14:30 +0000

The drawback is you can't use the web interface of mobileme to send mail with a from address not being the mobileme one.

By: Vadym

Vadym — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:40:33 +0000

I would assume there is a risk of an infinite loop otherwise

By: Mario

Mario — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:47:48 +0000

Hello, thank you for this tutorial, I think it's working for me so far.

To all of you:
Does it work, if you send a mail from your Gmail to your Gmail? If I do this, the mail is visible just at the Gmail-Webinterface and not in Mail.app. When I send a mail to my Gmail from the me.com-webinterface/@me.com-adress, it seems to work.

In short, forwarding does not work for me if the mail is sent from the same email adress.
Sure, this is not a big deal, but I just wanted to know if it is normal.

Thank you

Regards from Austria

By: Raghu

Raghu — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:24:05 +0000

Check out this great article on merging your gmail & mobileme accounts.

http://www.davesouth.org/stories/gmailme-a-mash...

By: Vadym

Vadym — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:26:00 +0000

Let me try to clarify what I mean by my non-superlative comment:
1. Push functionality on iPhone is available through two content providers: MobileMe and Exchange. There is a free alternative to MobileMe, which is mail2web. It support Exchange push protocol.
2. Having two email repositories, gmail and MobileMe, being setup on the phone IS redundant in terms of:
a. Data storage
b. Data management, since one needs manually synchronize deleted mails, etc
3. Lack of gmail push functionality is unfortunate and should be engineered by Apple/Google in order to avoid poor design people ought to use in order to get real-time notification