Setting up personal or business email aliases on the iPhone
This tutorial is going to be as short and to the point as possible and it will explain how to get your personal-business email - example@memorywalk.ca set up on your iPhone through Gmail. (without using exchange - hallelujah)
This post is similar to Kevin Chui’s blog post but I couldn’t get his to work so I found my own solution.
Conditions:
- You have set up an email address in Gmail via Settings - Accounts - Add a mail account you own
- Your ‘personal/business’ email is a pop account
- You are looking to send email from this email address rather than your default gmail one you created
- Your pissed off because you can’t figure out how to get your personal/business email to work without using exchange
Tutorial:
- On your iPhone go to Settings - Mail, Contacts, Calenders
- Click Add Account…
- Click Other (Not Gmail - if you just clicked on Gmail slap yourself)
- Name - choose whatever, Address - Gmail address of your gmail account (not your email address you want to set up)
- Enter your password for your Google Account blah blah blah, and description - choose whatever
- Host Name is imap.gmail.com (imap is a pretty neat feature, I suggest Googling it to learn about it more)
- smtp is going to be your carriers smtp - I live in Canada and use Rogers as a carrier so I insert smtp.rogers.com (This step is critical for this to work - please leave a comment for how you get this to work with other carriers)
- We are done with your Gmail account for now so lets go back to add another account…
- Click Other again (If you just clicked Gmail I swear to God I am going to have to come over there)
- This time type in your email address you want to send from
- Enter your password for your pesonal-business email
- Host Name is whatever your email provider specifies. If you have a hosting account with Simple Helix, Netfirms, DreamHost or whomever, you can get access to this information pretty easily.
- smtp is going to be smtp.gmail.com (another critical part of this rather insane hack) - This will only work if you have already set up your personal-business email with gmail. duh.
So that’s it, you can now send from your personal-business email from your iPhone that is set up in your Gmail account. I know that sounds like a mouthful but this does work. If you cannot get it to work it is most likely your smtp.yourcarrierhere.com piece that needs worked out. You can leave any questions in the comments field and I’ll try to help you out if you need some.
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Thanks for the tips but haven’t been able to get it to work.
Can you clarify a few steps:
1. I get that steps 1-6 bring mail in from one’s gmail account and take it that step 7 is for a different carrier, in my case the carrier that handles our web site domain but only offers POP email, which will not support aliases on the iPhone. What I don’t understand is how putting that carrier in the SMTP field assists.
2. In step 11 where you say to enter your password for your personal-business email, do you mean the gmail account established or the alias?
3. When I set up the address I want to send from, do I still show the incoming mail server host as imap.gmail.com? I tried this with my carriers host info but because it is a POP account the iPhone would not accept it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Hi T,
I will do my best to answer your questions.
1. Great question and I don’t know the technical answer but all the steps together create a hack to make the iPhone believe your alias email is your default email. Sorry that I cannot give you more detail on this.
2. I mean the alias. The password that you use for your personal email address for your host.
3. No don’t use imap.gmail.com for your host name, you need to contact your host for your email host name. I found mine by logging into my hosting account and viewing my email details. Yours will most likely be something like this — mail.yourdomainname.com.
Mine is also a POP account that I send from so I understand your pain! Hope this helps
Doesn’t work.
I tried exactly what you specified and when I try to send from the alias name, I get a msg that the sender address is invalid.
Step #7 needs to be correct in order for this to work correctly. If you feel like you have tried everything to get this to work I highly recommend switching to Google Apps. You can use it for personal use for free and you can be sending from your personal/business email address with no problems at all.
Visit http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html to get started and also visit https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77702 for documentation on how to get your email set up on your iphone via Google Apps.