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December 30, 2009
 

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December 29, 2009
 

The iPhone, IMAP and Multiple "From:" Addresses

I currently manage several email addresses through a single Gmail account, and apart from Google’s creative interpretation of the IMAP protocol, it’s been grand. I can send and receive messages to or from any of my accounts from a single, virtually spam-free, inbox. I wanted this ability on my iPhone as well but the setup is not as straightforward as it could be. Here’s what worked:

First, you need to setup a new mail account on your iPhone for Gmail, but not using the iPhone’s Gmail account type. Seriously, this is key. To be more specific, after you select “Add Account…”, choose “Other”. I should also mention that you can’t do this using Google Sync’s Exchange support. Now, after you’ve typed out your email address and password 12 times and filled in the other important bits as described here, you should have a functional IMAP email account. Which leads us to the second (not so) tricky part. The way you add multiple addresses to your new account is to input them into the “Address” field, under “IMAP Account Information”, with each address separated by a comma. Just like Mail.app! Except, you can’t type a comma in that field. I’ll wait while you try it… No? Good. Anyway, the obvious way around this is open any app that supports editable text, type in your address list, copy it, and paste it back into the “Address” field. You could also use the Description field. It’s up to you.

Now you should be able to select any of the email addresses you entered as the “From:” address in Mail.

UPDATE: Here’s a great article on setting up both Mail.app and iPhone Mail for Gmail.

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November 21, 2009
 

I'm Writing An iPhone App

I've been tossing a few ideas around for a while now. Most of them weren't very good. Then something happened; I had a problem. A problem I've had many (many) times. A problem with a small, but distinct audience. A problem without an existing solution!

"What is it?" you ask?

Unfortunately, this is the part where I tell you I can't reveal exactly what that problem is. I can't tell you because it would keep me up at night waiting for someone who actually knows what they're doing to knock out this application in a week and leave me with nothing to do but cast disparaging remarks at them on Twitter. Suffice it to say, it's niche.

"Well, from what you've told us so far, it sounds great!" you say, and I thank you for that.

So now I've got this idea, like I said, and it's pretty good one. But there's a catch, you see. I don't really know Objective C, or Cocoa, or Cocoa Touch if you want to be a jerk about it. I have little experience writing desktop applications and I'm honestly still a little uncomfortable around words like "retain" and "release". While I'm a pretty quick study, there's something to be said for hitting the ground running.

So this gives me a new idea! Maybe if force myself to document my experience writing this application it will help motivate me. Maybe, it will help someone else and I'll earn some brownie points with the Universe. Maybe if I actually finish this thing someone might stumble across this blog and feel so sorry for me that they buy the application out of pity! That's a win-win-win by my reckoning (it's also a lot of "maybes").

So what's next? I'm not entirely sure. I'll probably try to summarize what I've done so far to prepare myself (you know, montage style). I might also get distracted and lose interest. I don't know, and that's what makes this fun.

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