Using your own email address with MobileMe and your iPhone/iPod Touch

As a follow up to my last blog 'Using your own email address with Mobile and Apple Mail', this blog focuses on how to set up your iPhone/iPod Touch with the same functionality.

When adding a MobileMe account to your device, it will do all the hard work once you've entered the basics. Unfortunately, it locks you out of any changes to mail configuration within the MobileMe settings.

All we need to do to overcome this is to turn off MobileMe mail and set up a new Mail-only account that talks to MobileMe for incoming mail and the server of your external email account for outgoing mail.


Firstly, let's set up your MobileMe account on the iPhone/iPod Touch
(If you have already done this, you can skip this section)

1. Click the Settings icon on your device.
2. Select Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Click Add Account and select MobileMe.
4. Enter your Name, Address, Password, the description 'MobileMe' and click 'Save'.
5. The device will configure the MobileMe account automatically.

Next, we need to deactivate MobileMe Mail

1. Click the Settings icon on your device.
2. Select Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Select the MobileMe account and set Mail to 'Off'.

Finally, we need to set up a separate MobileMe Mail Account

1. Click Add Account and select 'Other'.
2. Enter your Name, MobileMe email address, MobileMe password and the Description 'MobileMe Email' and click 'Save'.
3. Your device will source your account information. Once it has, ensure the IMAP tab is selected.
4. Change the Email Address to your external email address.
5. For Incoming Mail Server, enter smtp.me.com as the hostname, your MobileMe account name for the user name and your MobileMe password.
6. For Outgoing Mail Server, enter the outgoing SMTP server, username and password for your domain email account.
7. Click Save.

Incoming email from your external email account

As explained in the prequel to this document relating to Apple Mail, you need to ensure that you are forwarding your incoming email from your external email account to your MobileMe email address to complete the process.


iPhone/iPod Touch with incoming MobileMe and external email account - Done!


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