01st Jul 2007
Using Google Apps for Your Domain email on the iPhone
I crumbled and bought an iPhone. Thus far, I love it. It’s the first ’smartphone’ (although the iPhone is more like a ‘geniusphone’) I’ve ever owned, meaning it’s the first that can do email and has unlimited data usage - something we don’t see in Canada.
On first sync, I noticed none of my 3 email accounts worked. I realized right away that it was obvious that both my school and photography emails wouldn’t work, since they were set up to use localhost as the mailserver (since I tunnel them through SSH). My SSL-enabled Google Apps for Your Domain email, however, was not working without reason.
I tapped my way to the settings to discover that the iPhone saw the ‘pop.gmail.com’ server address and assumed I was using a gmail account, so it appended a non-optional ‘@gmail.com’ string to my existing email address, making it look like ‘foo@bar.com@gmail.com’, which was obviously causing the problem.
A couple of other people have run into this problem on the Apple Discussions board as well as the Google Group for the Apps for Your Domain stuff. Thus, I offer a very simple solution:
In Mail.app, change the POP mail server from ‘pop.gmail.com’ to 209.85.199.109, the IP address of the same server. The iPhone won’t recognize it, so it won’t attempt to change it, and everything will work fine.
In addition, I highly recommend changing your username on the iPhone to ‘recent:food@bar.com’, so that Google’s email server knows to send you the most recently received/sent emails, even if they have already been POP’ed off the server by your home machine.
Enjoy your iPhone!
I crumbled and bought an iPhone. Thus far, I love it. It’s the first ’smartphone’ (although the iPhone is more like a ‘geniusphone’) I’ve ever owned, meaning it’s the first that can do email and has unlimited data usage - something we don’t see in Canada.
On first sync, I noticed none of my 3 email accounts worked. I realized right away that it was obvious that both my school and photography emails wouldn’t work, since they were set up to use localhost as the mailserver (since I tunnel them through SSH). My SSL-enabled Google Apps for Your Domain email, however, was not working without reason.
I tapped my way to the settings to discover that the iPhone saw the ‘pop.gmail.com’ server address and assumed I was using a gmail account, so it appended a non-optional ‘@gmail.com’ string to my existing email address, making it look like ‘foo@bar.com@gmail.com’, which was obviously causing the problem.
A couple of other people have run into this problem on the Apple Discussions board as well as the Google Group for the Apps for Your Domain stuff. Thus, I offer a very simple solution:
In Mail.app, change the POP mail server from ‘pop.gmail.com’ to 209.85.199.109, the IP address of the same server. The iPhone won’t recognize it, so it won’t attempt to change it, and everything will work fine.
In addition, I highly recommend changing your username on the iPhone to ‘recent:food@bar.com’, so that Google’s email server knows to send you the most recently received/sent emails, even if they have already been POP’ed off the server by your home machine.
Enjoy your iPhone!
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