On Dec 6, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Dan Shoop wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Levan, Jerry wrote: >> I guess I need to set up a dummy account on server so that the iPad and my >> macbook pro don't >> fight over grabbing mail from server.skynet. > > No, you need to properly define what your problem actually is. Right now it's > not clear what you're actually trying to do. >
My problem *was*: How can I directly send an email from my iPad/iPhone to a machine on my local network. The problem was complicated by the closed nature of the iPad, it is not clear how mail on the iPad works. My solution to the problem involved having access to pop (or imap) servers on the local network and a local DNS server. I suspect most iPad users do not have either of these two software services available on their home networks. I created a pop email configuration on the iPad that accessed my account on one of the local machines. When I select this pop account to send mail to machines on my local net I found that the iPad sends the mail first to the specified outgoing server and that server then forwarded the mail to the target machine in my local network. Now it turns out that I have cron reports sent to my user accounts on the local networks for each machine. As it now stands the iPad could steal any of the emails send to the local machine before my 'master machine' pulls the report. There does not appear to be an option to leave the mail on the machine for iPad mail configurations. I think one way to avoid this race condition would be do point the mail configuration on the iPad to a account that never receives any mail. Does that clear things up for you :) Jerry _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
