Over the holiday my wife was so kind as to use her hard earned Holiday bonus and buy me an iPhone. For the last two years I have had my trusty old Sprint Treo connected directly to my companies Exchange and personal POP3 server. Now that I have made the first step in switching to the dark side (I hear a MacBook Pro whispering in the distance), I have to accept that Mac’s don’t always play nicely with windows. iPhones do play nice with Google and specifically email services that offer IMAP support. Here are the steps I went through to get my iPhone to work with Gmail for Google Apps.

1. Enable IMAP support in “Settings” for Gmail
2. On the iPhone “Settings” -> “Mail” create a new “Other” account.
3. Enter the following settings
   • Incoming Mail Server
     • Host Name: imap.gmail.com
     • User Name: email@somewhere.com
     • Password: *****
   • Outgoing Mail Server
     • Host Name: smtp.gmail.com
     • User Name: email@somewhere.com
     • Password: *****
4. Click Save and go to the “Advanced” settings.
   • Mailbox Behavior
     • Change “Drafts Mailbox” to “Draft”
     • Change “Sent Mailbox” to “Sent Mail”
     • Change “Deleted Mailbox” to “Trash”
   • Incoming Settings
     • Use SSL: ON
     • Authentication : Password
     • IMAP Path Prefix: [Gmail]
     • Server Port: 993
   • OutgoingSettings
     • Use SSL: ON
     • Authentication : Password
     • Server Port: 587

(Note: Since I am using Google Apps my username will be at my own domain and not a username at gmail.com)