Using an external email account: forwarding to MobileMe and sending with external address

Summary

You can set up many popular email services to forward messages to your MobileMe address so you can read all your email in your MobileMe inbox. This also allows incoming messages from the external email service to be pushed to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, and me.com as soon as they arrive at the MobileMe servers.

After you set up forwarding, you can configure the MobileMe Mail web application to allow you to send messages using your external email address instead of your me.com address.

Products Affected

MobileMe, MobileMe Mail

Step 1: Set up automatic email forwarding to your MobileMe email address

To set up these common email services to forward to your MobileMe account, first follow steps in the appropriate link below:

Other services may provide forwarding as well. To find out how, contact your email service provider directly if they are not listed above.

 

Step 2: Set up Mail at me.com to use your external email address when sending email

To use Mail at me.com to send new messages or reply using your external email address, follow the directions in MobileMe Mail Help.

To complete the setup process, you will need the SMTP server and port number from your external email service as well as your username and password. For your convenience, here are the SMTP server and port numbers for some popular services.

  • AT&T - contact AT&T support directly for these settings
  • Comcast - Server: smtp.comcast.net  | Port:  587
  • Earthlink - Server: smtpauth.earthlink.net  | Port: 587
  • GMail - Server: smtp.gmail.com | Port: 587
  • Yahoo! Mail Plus - Server: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com | Port: 465

Note: These links and settings may be updated at any time as they are not controlled by Apple. Contact your email service provider for the latest information.

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