When iGet Mobile is configured to be able to send email, you can use this feature to:
- send documents to yourself. On the iPhone, this is a handy way to store a document semipermanently on the device, since it doesn't (yet) have a permanent document store that works like a hard drive.
- send documents and files to other people, without having to be at your Mac to do it.
- have iGet Mobile send you email notifications when server access details change.
Should iGet use your account, or have its own?
While we originally designed it to just use your email account to send email, there's no reason that your iGet Mobile server can't have its own email account. Thanks to Google, high-quality email accounts are now free.
Furthermore, in our testing, Gmail has proven to be the most reliable, problem-free email provider. iGet Mobile has a standards-based email implementation that should work with any decent mail provider. However, if you have any problems allowing iGet Mobile to use your own email account, our recommendation is to create a new free Gmail account, and let iGet Mobile use that.
iGet Mobile's email features also work with most ISP-provided email accounts, as well as .Mac and Gmail accounts.
Free email accounts from Yahoo, Hotmail, and similar services will not work, as they do not allow direct access to the outgoing mail server. (Yahoo premium mail accounts generally also work, but in our testing have sometimes proven to be somewhat unreliable.)
For specific details on configuring email, see the Preferences: Email section of this guide.