It is an obvious oversight/triage that iOS out of the box does not support multiple email addresses to send from. My usage scenario is as follows:
Have one mobile.me mailbox with it’s superior push feature and the ability to search through mail while on the go. Because I am working on a handful of projects in parallel I use a few ‘real’ (not reply-to or mobile.me aliases) ‘from’-addresses.
Assuming a clean iPad/iPhone/iPod, the cleanest way, so far, works like this:
Create one mobile.me Account and let it sync everything (Calendar, Notes, Find my iDevices etc.) but NOT email. This will take care of everything besides email.
Create one ‘Other’ Account On the incoming side enter in the original mobile.me settings:
- User: <your_mobile_me_id@me.com>
- Incoming Mail Server: mail.me.com
- Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.me.com
On the outgoing side enter the credentials of your SMTP-provider. In the Address-Field enter all your email addresses as a comma-separated list, like so:
me@addr1.com, me_again@smtp-addr.net, me3@gmail.com
Now you’ll be able to select (by clicking in the ‘From:’ field) the email address to use while creating and sending an email.
But for some reasons push is not working for this solution. I’ll see an Apple Genius and see what they have to say. Apple has a solution for this in place in mobile.me, but I don’t know if they sync it to iOS somewhere.