Mediatemple and email?
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- senseg
Hello
does it always work perfectly for u?
im getting always some issues. Now i upgraded to grid server and Mail asks me all the time my password. I saved it though.What mail software u use on mac?
- ninjasavant0
I set up my gmail account to check my MT email so I don't have to deal with it. I use Apple Mail to check my gmail.
- < this.gramme
- fo sure... best way to filter junk.joehamilton
- Lt_Jack_Hammer0
I was having problems all the time so I dumped MT and went to dreamhost...mucho better now.
- I dumped DH for MT. Much happier now.skwiotsmith
- To each his/her own. MT sucked balls for me and DH is much better...but, whatever works for ya.Lt_Jack_Hammer
- Yeah. DH just sucked for me. I stuck it out with them for 7 years and was fed up by the end.skwiotsmith
- i dropped DH for MT too!klu
- dmolanphy0
@senseg - make sure SSL is turned off. I've had some issues with mail in the past, but they're few and far between. (I use Mail on OSX)
- senseg0
im forwarding my emails to GMAIL
- ninjasavant0
you can set up Gmail to just pull in the email from your pop server, no need to forward.
- OSFA0
Quick question, I've always used POP accounts for email with previous hosting companies and I was able to open them on Mail (Mac) and webmail. Which one do you use? POP or IMAP?
I read that with mt, if you use a POP account, and use Mail for emails, they get deleted from server. How can I check them on Mail at home and webmail on the internetz at work or on the road? Sorry if my question sounds dumb...
- You'd need to set it up to leave the mail on the server for webmail. This is backwards, I would do it all through gmail.Jnr_Madison
- You can run all your domain mail through gmail and only have to deal with one email program.Jnr_Madison
- You could still use mail at home by setting up IMAP and checking gmail from there.Jnr_Madison
- If, like me, you switch to gmail 100%, you can use IMAP to upload old email from Mail into gmail, like I done.Jnr_Madison
- Basically the problem you have just now, is that two have both mail and webmail work you need to leave all mail on your server, which is not ideal.Jnr_Madison
- server, which is not ideal and why I said it was backwards.Jnr_Madison
- I don't know if I've explained this very well, sorry, lol.Jnr_Madison
- I use IMAP, so I can read/sort/delete mail on any of my Macs (Mail), or on webmail.ribit
- Leaving on the server is best.. (I don't get why you wouldn't want to?) Its just like offic enetwork mail system.. read anywhere..ribit
- ..and manage from any device you log into..ribit
- insomnie0
screw media temple
- OSFA0
bump?
- imnotaplumber0
I've had heaps of problems with Media Temple's grid server. So do the guys with small blogs that get sponsored hosting, however they have been shifted to stable clusters. I'm moving away from Media Temple for all hosting, just too unreliable even if their server admin control panel looks sweet.
- www.wiredtree.com looks like the future for me.imnotaplumber
- OSFA0
Thanks ribit & Junior (congrats again! haha!)
I've always used POP but I'm thinking it would be better to use IMAP for some reason. I've had some bad experiences with gmail so I'm not sure I would switch. I know there's a feature in Mail that allows you to leave messages on server even with POP... I am confused now... fuck!
- acescence0
I have an email account on grid server and i have one on a dv server. the one on grid is super slow and asks me for my password half of the time while the one on dv has no issues. i'm thinking something is up with the grid email servers.
- OSFA0
ok, so ribit, let's say I go with IMAP, can you set up the iPhone (or Mail) to never delete from server?
I am testing it now and have the same email open on all three, webmail, Mail and iPhone, but if I delete it n any of them, the message gets deleted from all... Can I edit this?
- ribit0
Yep, I have both set to not delete... the starting point with IMAP is you keep everything unless you explicitly delete it, and all devices are working with the same data, effectively all just acting as viewers/managers of the one set of email.
Why do you want to delete only on one/some devices? The point is to have the same state on all devices, I would have thought? (since your account size limitations are really only on the server, not on your devices?)
- ribit0
This all assumes you move email out of your Inbox after reading, either manually or using Rules, so that your iPhone Inbox isnt cluttered, but you still get to keep everything.
- OSFA0
So you CAn set them up to not delete eh? How?
I guess I am used to previous POP accounts where if I delete from my iphone, the email still stays in the server, and even if I delete it from my webmail, my home Mail will still keep it / downloaded... So that then I can manage them and keep them as long as I want...
- ribit0
You can't set to delete on just one device.. it stays everywhere, and when you delete it deletes everywhere. You have to get used to the concept of one just one set of mail that you manage wherever you like (it does work well!). I think it will do all you want once you adjust to it.. i.e. don't delete, move to a folder... and now you can do your archiving from anywhere, not just on your home computer. The webmail is just a mirror of what's on the mail server/your iPhone/your Mac.. they are all the same thing.
- It ties in with the way iCal and Address Book synch with all your devices, with the same content on all devicesribit
- ribit0
Also I think the iPhone only downloads and caches mail in subfolders as you actually read it (so if you have say 1GB of mail on the server, your iPhone won't necessarily cache all of it, so you may only use a few hundred MB on average on the iPhone). The point is you don't need to delete mail on the iPhone to save space... only delete stuff you actually don't need anymore, from wherever you are.
- OSFA0
Thanks ribit!!!
- graphiknature0
Forward to Gmail. They have better spam filters anyway.