I am going crazy trying to figure out how to get my work email from outlook to show up on my iPhone without having to go through webmail. My IT guy has told me that it can't be done without some expensive pc. of equipment (something they do have for the Blackberry), but if I was able to figure out how to get my calendar items pushed from outlook to ical from gmail, shouldn't there be something similar out there to allow me to get my outlook email, too?
Add account...Exchange
Enter you logon details and in the server url section, put in the first section of the url that you log on to webmail with i.e webmail.company.com
The domain is the line that you normally can't see, when you log onto your PC in the morning...click on the details link on your logon page to see it or ask IT
Password and username is your webmail logon p/w and username.
The iPhone will ask if you want to try and connect without security...say yes.
If it asks if you want to keep contacts on your phone, say "keep on phone".
That will give you Contacts, E-mail and Calendar all on your phone. You can turn each one on or off as you please and you can stop using the Google calendar if you want to, becasue you'll be dealing directly with the Exchange Server using Outlook Web Access.
CAlendar and e-mail will take a few minutes to update.
Push can be turned on in the accounts section on the phone as normal
Not really. The main thing is that as long as you can access webmail through your Mac's Internet browser at home, you will be able to set it up on your iPhone using the methods above
That's right. Your Server will be the yourwebmailtype.yourcompany.com
ororg and then possibly /exchange or whatever it says. Probably not though
Username and password is the only thing left on the first section.
The phone will then try and authenticate, tell you it can't and would you like to connect without security.
You say yes.
It authenticates and asks for the domain. It chcks and says Done!
You switch on email, contacts or calendar as required.
If you want to PM me over the weekend, no problem. Check my profile for my homepage and e-mail address
Or, as I have done in this same case is you could set up a rule in Outlook that just forwards everything to an alternate address that is on the iPhone.
Thks David, but nothing seems to be working. When I enter my new acct info in micro exchange, it says it can't authenticate the certificate...I tapped "accept." The phone tries to connect but comes back with "failed to authenticate." I am then asked to enter my server info, which I do (please note that in both cases the domain fields say optional but I populate them anyway. I know all of my info is correct -- I've entered it a gazillion times. The phone comes back with "failed to connect to server." I've even gone on and hit save anyway to see if it will sync but it just won't.
My IT guy (PC man) swears it can't work, but mac friends say, as you do, that it will. I downloaded IM lite (no IM lite viewer) but am not really sure what it's supposed to do. It asks me if I want to accept push notifications and I said yes but don't know what type of account to set up--none of them apply to me.
If I set it up as Gumsie suggests, would I just create a new gmail acct? Wouldn't that prevent me from getting my work email in outlook?
Going crazy in ATL but thks for your continued help. Pam
Hi there pr girl. Using a gmail account
cannot prevent you from getting email in your Outlook account *as long as* it is set to forward the mails. That is, it will have arrived in Outlook first, it's only after that the the mail is redirected.
My company use a VPN that looks also for a hardware signature kind of like a MAC address to authenticate with so if the hardware is not recognised that prevents me from receiving my Outlook mail on any device that isn't a company computer.
The only drawback with forwarding is that you can't reply from your phone as it won't be coming from your work e-mail account...it will come from your GMail account.
Dave Hutch wrote:
The only drawback with forwarding is that you can't reply from your phone as it won't be coming from your work e-mail account...it will come from your GMail account.
Absolutely right. All you then do is change the
To address. Admittedly when I first implemented the rule I probably, for the first few weeks, sent about 30% of the emails back to myself.
