Since 1995, I have had a pobox.com e-mail alias which means I have never had to send out all those annoying "my e-mail address is changing" e-mails to all my contacts. On the downside, I am on every spam list on the internet (but fortunately, pobox.com filters thousands of them for me each day).
I currently use MobileMe for my primary mailbox, and I have my pobox.com address set to forward to my real @mac.com address.
On Mac Mail, I can easily set up a mail account that uses IMAP to retrieve mail from me.com, and when I sent mail the outgoing mail server is set to pobox.com so I can send "from" my pobox.com address securely, and any replies get filtered back through pobox.com.
On the iPhone, this does not seem possible. I have a me.com entry, which gives me access to PUSH calendars, mail and contacts, but if I try to configure it to use pobox.com for the outgoing server, I lose the PUSH integration.
My solution has been to have both a me.com mailbox, and a pobox.com mailbox. I set up the me.com to work with contacts and calendars, and leave the mail part off. The pobox.com account is set up like my desktop mail -- me.com for IMAP/incoming and the pobox.com server for outgoing.
Doing this means I do not get push notifies on incoming e-mail. And if I turn both accounts on, I get notifications on me.com then need to go in to the pobox.com account and let it load so I can read/reply so my messages come from pobox.com and not from the unfiltered me.com address.
What I need to figure out is how to have a me.com enabled account that uses an alternative SMTP outgoing server -- I want to retain push for mail, contacts and calendar but use something else to send.
Anyone know if this is possible?
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