Tah Camel... was just wondering re effect of constant fetch on battery life. Appreciate the response though.

I think youcan use personal domain names with yahoo but I think you have to pay for it. I can't recall but I did see it advertised but I didn't pay attention to it because I don't have a domain myself.

Are you using Australian yahoo emails or American yahoo emails?

I think I've found a push solution that'll work for me. The specific needs are,

a) Push email.
b) Email aggregation in my Entourage on the Mac
c) Free.

The known problems with free push email services is that they don't allow users to retrieve their emails using POP/exchange on their Mac/PC and is locked to their service eg. YahooMail and Mail2Web. The question is is how can one retrieve those emails without paying a premium.

Solution... MacFreePops

MacFreePop is one of those donationware app that allows users to retrieve a variety of web based emails using your regular email client. It supports Yahoo, Hotmail amongst various other similar services.

So I have the following settings,
- YahooMail setup on iPhone with bcc to self on all outgoing emails.
- Collect YahooMail using Entourage via MacFreePops.

Tada!

BTW, on YahooMail, you can set the reply-to address to whatever you like (Options -> Mail options -> Accounts -> Add or Edit an account -> [select the appropriate account] -> Edit). But the setting is only reflected in emails sent via YahooMail's web interface. The setting does not work for emails sent via the iPhone.

Well, hope this helps.

I've kinda figured out how to add domain names. Well actually i lie - i really dont - i dont have a domain name and hence i dont care but i can kinda point you in the right direction.

First of all, its not free. It costs 34.95 USD a year.

In order to get the option, you have to change your preferred content to "Yahoo! US". This can be done in the account information section in your mail options. After doing this (and maybe after logging out and logging back in) your mail options should have two premium services available. The domain one should be listed in "Business Mail".

Great find! That worked perfectly.

has anyone given this a go?

That's odd.... I just read that emoze guide and it is definitely not push! It's just a POP account with a redirector that runs full time on desktop. So it's only going to update your iPhone on the same 'Fetch' schedule that you may already have setup.

Plus, if you are redirecting your work email, there's a good chance it could get you fired, depending on how anal your employer is about that kind of thing.

No, that's not how it works.

MobileMe works with personal web domains only. It won't work with email addresses on that domain. Basically, when you go to the domain in your browser it redirects to the pages hosted on MobileMe.

I'm also curious. Does Push and/or fetch use a lot of battery?

Absolutely. Most (bigger) companies I know will see it as grounds for termination if you forward your company mail outside the firewall. Forwarding outside the firewall means they're unable to run the proper mail archiving solution they should be running to maintain records of mail for legal and compliance reasons.

Now that we know that Android phones have push Gmail, is there any way of getting it on the iPhone?

I wish gmail would offer free push. I was hoping they would with the introduction of the android platform. Oh well I guess I will continue to pay for my dot mac

I've got my email set up by having my MobileMe email account take incoming emails diverted from my domain name email address. I then have my outgoing emails go through my domain name email account which is set up as the default account.

So I get push email from MobileMe and I use my domain name email address for sending emails.

I do the same and it works OK.

The only annoyance I have is that my sent items are not synchronised so if I reply on the phone it's not on the Mac and vice versa. Does anyone have a way around this?

I'm considering going back to the near-Push of fetching from my Google Apps account every 15 mins instead as that would probably be less inconvenient than searching through to find an email I sent and to realise I sent it from the phone so it's not there!