Comments on: HOWTO: Custom Domains with MobileMe on the iPhone via Postfix http://www.andyblyler.com/blog/2008/07/27/howto-custom-domains-with-mobileme-on-the-iphone-via-postfix/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:39:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: R. Zane Rutledge http://www.andyblyler.com/blog/2008/07/27/howto-custom-domains-with-mobileme-on-the-iphone-via-postfix/comment-page-1/#comment-7029 R. Zane Rutledge Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:05:00 +0000 http://www.andyblyler.com/blog/?p=122#comment-7029 <p>Andy: Excuse my ignorance of all things mail and geeky. I'm just trying to find a solution for getting my standard, good ole email address "pushed" to my iPhone, and be able to have my replies show up as that same custom email domain. (It would be nice to also take advantage of the whole MobileMe syncronization between iPhone/webmail/Mail.app as well, I suppose.)</p> <p>Is you postfix solution above only available if you're running your own mail server? I assume that is probably the case. If my mail account is hosted somewhere, this solution won't work, right? I can forward (redirect) my emails all day, but I don't think I can "restart postfix" or such things on my hosted account.</p> <p>Silly that there isn't an option to use anything other than the @me.com address... We should at least be able to override the "From" field (like many services allow). I guess I'll send Apple a dirty email and hope MobileMe 2.0 evolves. (If you have any suggestions, please let me know.)</p> Andy: Excuse my ignorance of all things mail and geeky. I’m just trying to find a solution for getting my standard, good ole email address “pushed” to my iPhone, and be able to have my replies show up as that same custom email domain. (It would be nice to also take advantage of the whole MobileMe syncronization between iPhone/webmail/Mail.app as well, I suppose.)

Is you postfix solution above only available if you’re running your own mail server? I assume that is probably the case. If my mail account is hosted somewhere, this solution won’t work, right? I can forward (redirect) my emails all day, but I don’t think I can “restart postfix” or such things on my hosted account.

Silly that there isn’t an option to use anything other than the @me.com address… We should at least be able to override the “From” field (like many services allow). I guess I’ll send Apple a dirty email and hope MobileMe 2.0 evolves. (If you have any suggestions, please let me know.)

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