Tip: Restart iPhone After Mail Changes July 29, 2008
Posted by Pip in Tips.Tags: accounts, email, push, settings, tip
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If you’re using MobileMe push mail, and you make changes to your mail accounts (any of them, even if you add one), it sometimes goofs up the push. Dunno why; it shouldn’t. But it seems to, and I spent ages trying to diagnose why my MobileMe mail wasn’t pushing properly after I added a Gmail account to the mix.
When I restarted the iPhone, MobileMe push went back to working fine. I then reproduced the error and the fix three times, which is scientifically sufficient for a blog nobody reads anyway.
Day 3: Success. Sorta. July 24, 2008
Posted by Pip in General.Tags: advice, experiment, mail, push, spam
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Well, the email plan worked. To some extent anyway. As it turns out, you can’t have two MobileMe accounts synced to the same phone or push seems to choke. I don’t think it’s supposed to be that way, but the MobileMe launch has been plagued with issues.
Since the email address on my primary MobileMe account was the one everybody has, that was the one I had to forward. Which meant I had to switch my contacts, calendars, etc to a new account I created with my Family pack.
That done, though, everything worked beautifully. Messages push nicely, I get significantly less spam, my messages are all archived on Gmail should I ever need to retrieve one I deleted, and it sends as the forwarded address. Other than the fact that I will occasionally need to check Gmail spam folders, it’s perfect for my personal needs.
This email set up is a little like the plot from Back To The Future 2, so if you have questions about it, post in the comments below.
A (Nearly) Perfect iPhone Email Setup July 24, 2008
Posted by Pip in Tutorials.Tags: advice, gmail, junk, mail, mobileme, push, tutorial
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Want to use MobileMe for push but don’t want a me.com address? Want to filter spam out before it hits your iPhone? Read on.
I wrote earlier about trying to find a way to reduce the amount of spam that came through my MobileMe pushed account. MobileMe is lacking in server-side spam filtering, so I was constantly getting c1al1s ads that would not only imply an inability to acheive erection, but also annoy me with vibrating ass syndrome. These ads were, of course, filtered on my desktop, but only after I’d gotten them on my iPhone.
The solution I came up with was a little complex to set up, but now operates smoothly, catches 99% of my spam before it hits my iPhone, and has the lovely added benefit of archiving all my mail in a separate, Google-searchable account. Simply put, I used Gmail for my own nefarious purposes.
Day 3: Light At The End Of The Tunnel July 23, 2008
Posted by Pip in General.Tags: aim, apps, hope, push
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I’ve done a bit of research, and apparently Apple intends to release some kind of push server in September.
The forum chatter suggests that this server may mimic background operation for selected apps such as AIM, pushing new messages to the program to enable alerts. The specific details are beyond me, but if this could be made possible for AIM and, say, Facebook this thing could almost be useful.
I understand Apple’s allergy to background apps. It is, after all, a mobile processor, and giving that kind of power to undescriminating developers risks security and lag issues. Still, for a communication device, background notifications are a necessity.
