I bought a mac when I was home in Canada and getting it set up is proving more difficult than I could have anticipated. Correction - figuring out which email system to use is my issue. Keep in mind I have a hotmail account (which I am willing to phase out, as it seems completely incompatible with all mac email interfaces plus it's in my maiden name), two "shawmail" accounts from Canada (which I have not been able to have send outgoing mail because no one can explain to me the answer to this one little question since arriving - hey what the hell why not ask? - Anyone know what the outgoing SMTP code is if you have NET internet?), a gmail account for this blog, and now a .me account. Ai Carrumba. Oh and a blackberry. Yes after 6 months in Brazil I finally have my blackberry, yesterday was a big day (and actually happened to even be my birthday which is apparenty what it takes for miracles to happen!).
But now I am confused - Thunderbird? Mail? Microsoft Entourage?
Anyone have any tips???
I guarantee the posts will be much friendlier and less grouchy when this is all set up!
I would like to say that I do like the Mac and my pretty new screen (I bought a separate bigger screen for my desk) and think we will be very happy together... eventually.
Ola Senhora DRL! My nerdy friend at work said that you should... oh wait, I'll have him tell you....
Hey girl! You should phase out your Hotmail, Shawmail and focus on Gmail as that's the superior offering. MobileMe is better for the cool little programs that come with your Mac, but you can use that mail as a backup if you need to. Also, both Gmail and MobileMe have their own SMTP servers that will work well wherever you are.
Use Apple's "Mail" program. Entourage sucks. Thunderbird is outdated. Mail is great. It will setup your MobileMe account automatically if you type in your xxxx@me.com address.
To setup Gmail with Apple Mail you need to first enable IMAP in your Gmail using these instructions:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77695
Then add/configure Gmail into Apple Mail using these instructions:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=81379
Hope that helps!
xoxo, Scott
Posted by: Joey | September 09, 2008 at 05:02 PM
Ok Thank you seriously I needed someone to just steer me in that direction. Funny thing is I had my gmail working in no time but am still working on the me.com mail to work (funny how the apple products aren't working together all that well!)
I did everything I was supposed to and now I am supposed to wait about 24 hours... haha
Posted by: DRL | September 10, 2008 at 05:05 PM