Sam and Alastair, Thanks. It's all done and dusted and now it's working a treat.
Enjoy the Festival Philippe -- Sent with Sparrow On Saturday, 7 May 2011 at 12:00, Alastair Weller wrote: > Phillipe > > I've done this on my iPad but not the iPhone. The trick is to set it up as a > standard IMAP account rather than a Gmail account and then once setup go and > modify the address in the account information to be the alias (or aliases > separated with commas) you want to send from. Your gmail address remains in > the username for the incoming mail server. > > Hope that helps (and works on an iPhone) > > Alastair > > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:13, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Philippe > > > > You can set the Default email address in gmail as your pobox.com address, > > then configure the account manually on your iPhone as a generic imap > > account, with your gmail username & password and your pobox.com address as > > the email address. > > > > Incoming server : imap.gmail.com > > Outgoing server : smtp.gmail.com > > > > You'll get all your email twice if you keep the normal gmail account on > > your iPhone, but you can always remove the gmail account and replace it > > with the imap account then swap back when you're less nomadic. > > > > Regards > > > > Sam > > > > -- > > MacAmbulance > > Sam Mullen > > 07747778022 > > [email protected] > > > > > > On 7 May 2011, at 09:30, Philippe Chandless <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > As I'm currently living a semi-nomadic life without an ISP, I'm using > > > GMail as my main email account with the address <[email protected]> set > > > as the alias. On my Macbook I use Sparrow as the mail client. It allows > > > me to use the pobox address as an alias. > > > > > > I'm trying to do the same thing using the Mail app on my iPhone. It's set > > > up to use both my GMail and Mobile Me accounts and I can't change the > > > 'From' address on either from the standard address that comes with the > > > account. > > > > > > In the interests of maintaining continuity and keeping non pobox.com > > > addresses free of spam etc. is there a way I can set one of the accounts > > > to give my 'From' address as the pobox one? > > > > > > Have a great weekend > > > Philippe > > > > > > -- > > > Sent with Sparrow > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > > > -- > P Before you print think about the ENVIRONMENT > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
