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➊ Sign up for a free Gmail account. You do that at www.gmail.com.
The idea here is that you’re going to have all your iphonecrazy@comcast.net
messages sent on to this Gmail account, and you’ll set up your iPhone to
check the Gmail account instead of your regular account.
Why? Because Gmail has excellent spam filters. They’ll clean up the mail
mess before it reaches your iPhone.
Unfortunately, just forwarding your mail to the Google account won’t
do the trick. If you do that, then the return address on every message
that reaches your iPhone will be iphonecrazy@comcast.net. When you tap
Reply on the iPhone, your response won’t be addressed to the original
sender; it’ll be addressed right back to you!
But the brainiacs at Google have anticipated this problem, too.
➋ Sign in to Gmail. Click SettingsÆAccountsÆ“Add another mail
account,” and fill in the email settings for your main address. Turn
on “Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server.” What you’ve
just done is to tell Gmail to fetch the mail from your main address. The
return addresses of your incoming messages remain intact!
As you complete the setup process in Gmail, you’ll see a message that says:
“You can now retrieve mail from this account. Would you also like to be able
to send mail as iphonecrazy@comcast.net?”
If you click “Yes, I want to be able to send mail as [your real email address],” your
iPhone should not only receive spam-filtered mail from your main account—
but when you reply, your main email address will be the return address, and
not your Gmail address. In theory, at least.
Unfortunately, this feature doesn’t work, at least not at this writing. For now,
your outgoing iPhone messages will bear your Gmail return address. But
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