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. Sales and Marketing
SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc.
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Categories: Microsoft Exchange, Tutorials & Guides, mail2web.com ~ ~ Trackback
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:25 am
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.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:08 am
I need to sync Gmail and mail2web account. Is it yet possible with Imap?
November 13th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
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!
November 18th, 2008 at 5:04 am
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?
November 18th, 2008 at 11:01 am
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
December 9th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Is this feature still available? I dont see it in my mail2web live control panel.
Also can you use it with a pop3 currently hosted with myhosting.com?
December 9th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Hi Mike, yes this feature is still available. When you log into your OWA at http://exchange.mail2web.com you can click on “My Email Settings”. You’ll then see “New Feature: Follow our simple process…” You can click there to set it up.
You can also enable it by logging in at http://support.mail2web.com, click on “Personal Exchange” under “Active Paid Services”, select “Go” beside the account you want to manage, and then click on the “New Feature: follow our simple process…” link.
And yes, it works with myhosting.com POP3 or IMAP4 email.
January 5th, 2009 at 7:28 am
I have IPhone and I have also mail2web account but I’m not sure what to do in order to have my email received on my I phone
January 5th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Hello Moataz,
If you log into your control panel at https://support.mail2web.com, then under “ACTIVE FREE SERVICES” click on “mail2web LIVE”. Then click on “View iPhone Settings”. There you can get a configuration file for your account, or view the manual instructions for setting up your iPhone.
Hope this helps!
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:57 pm
How can i set my this mail on nokia E 51 on Roadsync & mail for exchange .reqd server name
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:29 am
If you are a mail2web LIVE or Personal Exchange user, the server is exchange.mail2web.com. If you have Business Exchange, it is ex7.mail2web.com.
January 24th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Thanks
Its work on m4e.
But Pl send me setting for roadsync
January 24th, 2009 at 10:21 am
sorry for double post
How can I set my mail account on nokia e51 with road sync.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
The settings should be very similar to your ActiveSync settings. You can review your ActiveSync settings from https://support.mail2web.com.
February 6th, 2009 at 2:49 am
wait, how do i setup my mail2web account on my blackberry bold? like am i suppose to do it through ‘enterprise activation’ or what?
i’d like my mail2web account to be so if someone sends it an email it goes directly to my blackberry
someone please help
February 9th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Greetings,
Before you can activate your exchange account on your BlackBerry Bold you can first sign up from https://support.mail2web.com for the BlackBerry Service. Once you have signed up you’ll get instructions on how to activate.
August 22nd, 2009 at 4:09 am
You wrote above:
“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.”
If I set up my mail2web account through the email aggregator method instead of the forward method, when mail2web collects my email from my POP account will it then erase my email off the POP account?
Thank you kindly.
August 24th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Yes, the email aggregator will delete the email if your account is on a POP3 server. If you are on an IMAP4 server, you will have a few different options including leaving the email on the server.
If you don’t want your POP3 email deleted, you can use the forwarding option instead.
Hope this helps!