An email re: mobile me
A good friend of mine just emailed me this, if any of you are interested…
Hey Zak!
I was totally just creeping your twitter page, and I saw you tweet about customizing outgoing mail to use your zak@zaksoup.com email…and I just wanted to let you know that on the server side of things, Apple has disabled that for now. (and the only true way to get email to come from your domain is to have it setup as such on the server side.)
If you just change headers, or route it through Gmail, you will end up with issues, because if you would need a complex SPF record, DKIM would be very difficult to setup and your email would most likely show the “on behalf of thing” (for example, messages will show that they are from:”zak@zaksoup.com on behalf of zaksoup@me.com” or whatever.) If you have the ability to use a custom SMTP server, you might be able to accomplish this, but even then, you still need it to be sanctioned by iCloud.
Ever since MobileMe was released and had similar functionality to Microsoft Exchange, everyone wanted custom domains, but Apple still has not given in. As of now, the only way to get a good synchronized email, calendar, contacts, and task list system is to use Microsoft Exchange, or Google Apps. I think that until Apple allows custom domains, and opens up a hosted Mac OS X Lion Server reseller program, iCloud/MobileMe will never take off in the business/professional world.
Anyway, just thought I would share my knowledge on the topic, in case you were still wondering. I would love to help you out with your email setup if you need it…I do this kind of stuff all the time, and was trained by some industry experts that I did an internship with last summer. :)
Hope all is well!
-M
