Wes Groleau

"Thank you for choosing Frontier" they keep saying as they demonstrate
their inability to even approach their promise of seamless transition.

No thanks to a parade of script-reading phone answerers, I finally got
e-mail working again on my Macbook.

But not the iPhone. All the right boxes are checked, but iTunes will
not transfer the changes into the iPhone. Setting them manually
doesn't work either, apparently, as the phone keeps showing both the old
and new servers and saying it can't connect to either.

Also irritating that setting the outgoing server on the iPhone has to
be done for each account instead of once for all like in OS X Mail.

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Wes Groleau

Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, and cut with an axe.

Wes Groleau

On 08-29-2010 12:56, Wes Groleau wrote:
> No thanks to a parade of script-reading phone answerers, I finally got
> e-mail working again on my Macbook.
>
> But not the iPhone. All the right boxes are checked, but iTunes will not
> transfer the changes into the iPhone. Setting them manually

OK, it took two hours, but I did it.

Obstacle one: If mail is "running" on the iPhone, in the sense that it
appears in the list of multi-tasking apps, iTunes says it can't sync
because Mail is using the accounts. But if you don't see it, apparently
it times out and goes away. I kept wondering why nothing was changing
until I happen to sit there and wait.

So then I "exited" mail (and everything else for the fun of it).

Obstacle Two: When you change the incoming and outgoing servers,
account names, and passwords, iTunes considers it a new account
and _adds_ it to the phone without deleting the old one. So, the
changes were on new accounts _after_ the old ones with the same names.
The old ones still had the old information. A few more tries until
I happened to scroll down and see the same names repeated.

Rather than put forth the effort to make sure I was deleting the
correct one, I just deleted them all.

Obstacle three: iTunes would not replace them.
After a few more tries, I finally figured out that the iTunes logic
was that they Mac had made no changes since the prior sync, so there's
no sync needed.

Had to go pull up each mail account in preferences, change something
to the wrong info, save it, change it back, save it again. Then
(don't forget to "exit" Mail on the iPhone), hook up and sync.

Finally it works!

Wow. This is one case where "it just works" was not happening!

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Wes Groleau

Fuggedaboudit !
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