Microsoft Exchange
Push email for POP3 and IMAP4 accounts
Hello,
There’s a cool trick you can use to push almost any email account (POP3 or IMAP4) to a mobile device.
It’s not actually a trick but a few features we’ve put together into a 3-step process that will allow you to use a mail2web.com Personal Exchange account to handle almost any POP3 or IMAP4 account - like a gmail or yahoo email account.
By default, all our mail2web.com Exchange accounts are capable of pushing your mail2web.com email account using ActiveSync, RoadSync (good for Nokia, Motorola or Sony Ericsson users) or Blackberry.
But what if you want to push an existing email account you use to your mobile device?
All you need to do is sign up for a Personal Exchange account. You’ll get an email address under mail2web.com (eg. your_user_name@mail2web.com). Once you’ve signed up, go into the mail2web.com control panel and under ‘Manage Account’ you’ll see a link at the bottom page that says: “NEW FEATURE: use this account to handle another email address.”
This will take you through a 3-step process that doesn’t take more than 2 minutes to complete. The first step is to specify the alternate email address you want to use. We have a quick method to verify that you are the rightful owner of this email account.
The next step asks you to either forward your email to your new email account or use our email aggregator to automatically collect email from that account in regular intervals. Forwarding is a better option if your provider offers this but the email aggregator is easy to set up, free to use and works quite well.
The last step just verifies that you want to change your ‘From Address’ - the address your emails will appear to come from. Once you’ve completed these steps, all email from your original account is now directed to your mail2web.com account. Any email you send will appear to come from your original account but now you can access those through your mobile device as well as through the Outlook Web Access interface. You’ll also get the added bonus of the personal calendar, contacts and tasks that comes with our Personal Exchange account, all of which can be sync’d with your mobile device.
John Carthy
V.P. Sale and Marketing
SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc.
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Do you connect to GMail via imap? As then you could keep the two accounts in sync, if I move or delete mails.
I’d pay for that, for sure.
I need to sync Gmail and mail2web account. Is it yet possible with Imap?
Hi Roque,
Yes since Gmail accounts allow you to access them via IMAP you can use our “Email Aggregator” feature to automatically download your email from Gmail into your mail2web.com Exchange account!
I can’t get the service to work. Is it possable to set up a pop 3 accounts to be sent in real time to this account, and to reply back on the iphone and people think it is coming from the address they used?
Hi Rick,
Yes, this is possible with either our Personal Exchange or Business Exchange service. You can set your POP3 account to forward to your mail2web.com Exchange account, then in the control panel you can configure your POP3 account as an “Alternate Email Address” and then modify your “Primary From Address” so that email coming from your exchange account appears to come from your POP3 account. If you are having trouble getting it configured or set up I invite you to contact support@mail2web.com and they can provide you with more personalized assistance and troubleshooting.
Regards,
Tim