Managing Multiple email Accounts

I can't answer everything but I can give you some experience that I have that might shed some light on your concern. My iPhone does allow me to manage multiple email accounts. I don't understand the different email accounts available but the iPhone does allow me to check internet based email accounts such as hotmail and yahoo. In turn, I use Outlook 2003 to access these email accounts for emails that are too large to read. What I like about the iPhone, is that there is a setting called PUSH that allows emails to be pushed immediately to your phone as if it was a text message. I am not sure if this is an iPhone feature or an email server feature. I also notice that once Outlook sends/receives, the emails that are on my phone get removed whether they are read or unread and then placed onto my computer with Outlook.

Short answer: Yes. Without any problem.

You can set up any e-mail account you wish, separate from the others. I have 24 different accounts on my iPhone, from hotmail, yahoo (including ymail and rocketmail), gmail, .mac, and bellsouth. You can send and/or reply to any e-mail using whichever account you wish. Very user friendly.

Jon, do you have a simple answer for me on the Push feature? I'm steering the thread away a little but I think you completed it. I have an ATT.net account. Under selections, "Fetch New Data" "Advanced" "email account name" there are three selections provided, "Push" "Fetch" "Manual." I noticed that when I set up an ATT.net sub account for my daughter's iTouch, the "Push" feature was missing.

Not sure I understand your question completely.

On my iPhone, my primary .mac account is set to push. My secondary .mac account (alias) only has the option for "fetch".

All of my Bellsouth/att accounts, sub accounts have the option of either 'Push", "fetch" or "manual". I am not familiar with the iTouch, there may be something different in the settings for that device.

Thanks for checking Jon, someone on this forum did have a problem with the Push feature missing. I am sure it applies to the iTouch as well.

Some providers do not offer the option, so it does not appear in the settings. I don't know which ones. But, it seems to me, off the top of my head, to do with sub-accounts in some cases, and whether or not it's IMAP capable, webmail based, or POP.

Here's what I see on my iPhone:

Fetch/manual only: Gmail, .mac sub-account, clear.net (which uses gmail).

Fetch/push/manual: bellsouth.net (including sub-accounts); yahoo mail (including ymail and rocketmail); .mac primary account;

AOL has no options for PUSH/FETCH.

So, my best guess is that this option "fetch/push/manual" is driven by the ISP, rather than the iPhone.

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Has anyone found a solution (is there an app out there) that seperates your email accounts on your iphone screen. I know when i receive an email in mail, but i dont know when i have received a new email in my other accounts. its a pain to have to check it on my own to see if i have new ones and to go 3 clicks into my account. i hope there is a solution, because i am starting to question leaving my blackberry!

I'm no expert. Just a user.

If I understand your question, you have several accounts: one .mac account and three other IMAP accounts from other services, not associated with .MAC?

My iPhone keeps all accounts separate. I don't think it can be set up any other way right now. How do you have your settings configured on the iPhone for each account?

I may not understand your question . . .

Jon