Hi Adam,
Yes Gmail does indeed work with iPhone and this is how I utilise Mail
when not able to connect via WiFi.
Provider should also have a server able to achieve said results, but I
prefer gmail added security with SSL servers.
Actually I did not setup Gmail, it was done whilst syncing Mail
accounts with MacPro using iTunes sync and ticking relevant box.
So acquire Gmail account or setup previous one on computer, then sync
iPhone.
Your Gmail account is accessible through mail app on phone and
computer, remember to utilise IMAP as server type making mail
available on both.
Also would advise in setting up mailboxes to store mail wanting to be
kept / shared re-used. Mailing Lists etc, just set up filters at Gmail
side and it will filter before delivery.
Then clearing inboxes etc. regularly as they do collect quite a lot of
mail quickly, and Gmail does have a lot of Spam coming your way, but
does have very good filtering.
Gmail likes to archive instead of deleting. Yes it does have huge
storage on servers but your phone has limited space that fills rather
quickly if not careful.
Cheers!
`RobD,,,
On 23May2009, at 3:01 pm, Adam Hewitt wrote:
Hi All,
I have had an iPhone for a while however I have been using a work
supplied SIM card which did not have a data plan attached to it so I
haven't really bothered with much of the 'mobile internet' side of it
apart from using wireless at home. Now I am about to start a new job
which doesn't supply a mobile plan and today I have got a new 16GB
iPhone on a plan ($69 plan with Vodafone for those interested with 1GB
of data) and I am giving my old iPhone to my wife.
Now I just did a search to figure out how to setup my gmail account to
push the emails to my iPhone....and discovered that it appears that
Google haven't setup this feature yet!! I was sure that this was
advertised as being available during one of the keynote speeches??
Apart from signing up with MobileMe (which I am going to find
difficult justifying to my wife after getting the new phone and plan)
how is everyone doing their push email? I have read about setting up a
ymail account and forwarding gmail email to that etc, but then I run
the risk of getting SPAM sent to the ymail account and getting
delivered to me whereas the gmail SPAM filtering is fantastic. I find
it really weird that they haven't set this up yet.
While I am at it, does anyone have any tips & tricks that they can
share related to iphone/PIM/syncing/internet/etc for using with a data
plan? Now that I have one I would like to put it to good use....(I
plan on getting iiQuota to manage my calls and data usage, plus I
already have the ToodleDo app for keeping track of my tasks....any
other time management/project management tools would be useful as
well)
Kind regards,
Adam.
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