Hi Clive, David has pretty much captured it. As an alternative strategy though, if you want to insulates yourself from the ISP provided email account, simply set-up a gmail (hotmail, yahoo mail) account and use that exclusively. The iPhone setup for a gmail account is incredibly simple because the defaults (port numbers, SSL protocol, email server address) are all programmed in to the setup utility and they don't have to be reentered. You can then forward your ISP provided email account to your gmail account. The benefits of this approach are that you can change ISP on a whim without having to email everyone in your address book to inform them of an email address change. You can also set up multiple gmail accounts for various purposes with very little effort. I have one account for my subscriptions to newsgroups, for instance.
The downside is, of course, that the google-plex gets to see all your email. :-( Cheers, Carlo On 2011-02-04, at 11:51, David de la Hunty wrote: > > you can navigate through the Settings menu to do it. > Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Add Account..>Other>Add Mail > Account>(details of westnet account) if it fails otherwise, phone telstra > rather than westnet. variable response from Telstra for internetty iphone > problems but you usually get to someone who can sort it eventually. I would > try to go to the Internet part of telstra rather than the Mobile phone part. > dd > On 04/02/2011, at 11:04, Clive Slater wrote: > >> >> I am to help a friend on Monday to get his iphone (Telstra plan) to receive >> his emails (Westnet) setup as he has been having difficulty and Westnet have >> claimed that they are not too MAC savvy to help him. Anyone that has done >> this and that is willing to offer any support would be gratefully >> appreciated. >> >> Regards >> >> Clive >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
