iPhone/Gmail 'reply to' question

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iPhone/Gmail 'reply to' question

hi guys - helping someone can help me out w/ an email issue...

I have an iPhone 3G (updated to 2.1), and would like to use my personal email domain on the iPhone. For some reason I can't configure the account directly (whole other problem), so I am forwarding it to an IMAP Gmail account, and set up the @mydomain account as my reply to address in Gmail.

So, the forwarding to Gmail is all good, but when I reply from the iPhone, the sender address still appears as Gmail. Any way to change this? Am I even making any sense?

thanks a ton for the help

iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Sep 12, 2008 5:54 PM

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virtub

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Sep 19, 2008 2:55 AM in response to edubs

It's a bit laborious, but you can do it. Here's how:

1) Enable IMAP in your Gmail settings if you haven't already: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77695

2) On your iPhone, tap Settings.

3) Tap "Mail, Contacts, Calendars".

4) Tap "Add Account..."

5) Tap Other. (Careful, do not tap Gmail.)

6) Fill out the first screen as follows:
Name: your name
Address: your personal domain email address, i.e., the one you want to appear in the "reply to" field. Do not use your gmail address here.
Password: your gmail password
Description: a useful reminder of what this account is.

7) It will say "looking up account information" and then display an IMAP configuration screen.

8) Skip down to the Incoming Mail Server section and fill it out as follows:
Host name: imap.gmail.com
User name: your full gmail address including "@gmail.com"
Password: your gmail password

9) Under Outgoing Mail Server, fill it out as follows:
Host name: smtp.gmail.com
User name: your full gmail address including "@gmail.com"
Password: your gmail password

10) Press Save.

If you followed the instructions correctly, the account will be created. If you get an error, make sure that all the fields are filled in exactly as above.

Good luck!

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