If you're one of these halfway techie kind of people like myself that know a little about the emerging mainstream tech world, but not enough to hurt yourself or anyone else, then you might find this information useful. Perhaps this tidbit will save you a little of that hoarded, precious commodity---Time.
Today I learned of a possibly revolutionary new mail service from a close friend of mine Jerry Daniels (Find him on Twitter @jerrydaniels) who happened to tweet about it. I read the article and checked Shortmail out at shortmail.com. Suffice it to say that it's a simple mail service centered around people and relationships: 500 character or less emails with no attachments, folders, and all the head pounding chicanery that goes along with the usual sifting, sorting, and weeding of your email inbox on a daily basis. It looks to be bye-bye to spam and hello to basic, simple emails from your family and friends. Hey, what a thought?!! ....Now back to the reason that I wrote this post in the first place-- Since I have always just used gmail on all my Apple devices, I never had to fill in the IMAP/SMTP info that's required in the Mail App's settings. Although this is easy, if you're not sure what to put there it can be frustrating, as well as the subsequent hunt and peck. In case you are one of the ones that requires this information, it is located on the accounts page under advanced settings once you have set up a mail account with Shortmail.com. Setting up an account is free, quick, and easy and If you have a Twitter account, then you're mail address for Shortmail can be the same as your Twitter name if you like. Check it out.
Today I learned of a possibly revolutionary new mail service from a close friend of mine Jerry Daniels (Find him on Twitter @jerrydaniels) who happened to tweet about it. I read the article and checked Shortmail out at shortmail.com. Suffice it to say that it's a simple mail service centered around people and relationships: 500 character or less emails with no attachments, folders, and all the head pounding chicanery that goes along with the usual sifting, sorting, and weeding of your email inbox on a daily basis. It looks to be bye-bye to spam and hello to basic, simple emails from your family and friends. Hey, what a thought?!! ....Now back to the reason that I wrote this post in the first place-- Since I have always just used gmail on all my Apple devices, I never had to fill in the IMAP/SMTP info that's required in the Mail App's settings. Although this is easy, if you're not sure what to put there it can be frustrating, as well as the subsequent hunt and peck. In case you are one of the ones that requires this information, it is located on the accounts page under advanced settings once you have set up a mail account with Shortmail.com. Setting up an account is free, quick, and easy and If you have a Twitter account, then you're mail address for Shortmail can be the same as your Twitter name if you like. Check it out.