Anyone can get a free Gmail account. In your Gmail settings you can setup your main account as the address to send email from. This means Gmail will send mail for you with the return address of your own preferred email account.
Once this is setup you can use smtp.gmail.com with SSL on port 587 as your primary outgoing server and it pretty much works anywhere on any device. If you have a SPAM problem you can also forward your mail to Gmail to run it through their amazingly effective filters and store it in IMAP form on the server in practically unlimited quantity so you never risk losing mail if your computer crashes. Good Value. On 27/06/2010, at 9:23 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > Hi Daniel & Alex, > > Daniel, are all your email accounts IMAP? Or can you send using a POP account > on 3G Network? > > Like Susan mentioned in her reply, when on the 3G Network I have to use my > MobileMe IMAP Mail account to send (which is what I do). > As I cannot send using my Westnet POP Mail Account, unless I change the > Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) to mail.bigpond.com. > > Both Westnet & MobileMe 'Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) use Default Ports > 25,465,587. > Westnet SMTP is: Authentication NONE & does NOT use SSL (Secure Sockets > Layer)) > MobileMe SMTP is: Authentication Password, Username & Password & does NOT use > SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) > > I have my MobileMe ro...@mac.com set as my 'Default' Primary Account on my > iPhone, so all mail is sent via ro...@mac.com. > I have the same issue when travelling with my MacBook Pro and connecting > through other Networks in Hotels. > I can send using my MobileMe Mail account, but not my Westnet Mail Account > unless I change the server. > > I can see where Alex is coming from, but as I use my MobileMe account as > default primary account, it doesn't really trouble me that much. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 26/06/2010, at 8:37 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
