Comments on: Send email from your @ubuntu.com email address on your iPhone using Gmail

By: Sciri

Sciri — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:46:27 +0000

Or you can just comma-separate a list of email addresses in the Address field of your iPhone instead of going through all the trouble of setting up a second half-broken account:

Address: sean@ubuntu.c, sean@somewhere-else.c, sean@example.c, etc.

That’s a standard feature of Apple Mail.app that carried over to the iPhone.

By: Joeb454

Joeb454 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:01:44 +0000

G-A-C:

This is present even in launchpad emails (they’re sent from an @canonical.com address) – so I don’t think there’s a lot we can do, unless canonical setup something like google apps for domains on the ubuntu.com domain

By: G-A-C

G-A-C — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:14:16 +0000

Be warned that I think this will cause recipients you email who use Outlook to see your actual Gmail address (“chrisjohnston@gmail.com on behalf of blah@blah.com“) in the From: line of Outlook when they open your message. It’s an unfortunate side-effect of using non-Gmail addresses with Gmail, and can only be avoided by setting up an SMTP server associated with this extra address in Gmail, but I assume there are no SMTP servers to handle @ubuntu.com addresses if they’re only intended for receiving mail.

May not be a huge concern to you, as this side effect is also present in the main Gmail app so you’re probably already aware of it but I know when I set this up I wasn’t, and it caused my personal email address to be rather more widespread at work than I’d intended it to be…