A Penguin in the Orchard

Make iPhone, Apple Mail, and GMail POP work together

(Via Max OSX Hints.)

I was really sick of POP GMail and the iPhone not just working. I found several types of hints online, and none would really work for my situation. I use POP on GMail so that I can get mail on my Mac and leave a copy on GMail’s server for archive and search purposes, which I do endlessly. The subtle implication here is that I have about 2,500 messsages in there.

So I set up the iPhone and was all excited when it just took my accounts from iTunes and set them up. But I noticed one thing: even if I had Recent on, for some reason, my Mac and my iPhone would race to download a message and if one got it, sometimes the other did, and sometimes it didn’t. I confirmed this to happen to other people via many furious and frazzled searches waaaay past my bedtime.

Another thing I found was that I’m not a super great typer on the iPhone yet, and there were some messages I’d want to read on the iPhone but respond to on my Mac. In short, for a lot of reasons, it wouldn’t…