Taxman, Thanks for the details. Much appreciated!

@Lance: I have about 4 email accounts forwarded to my MobileMe account (POP and IMAP). I only have the MobileMe account set up on my iPhone but I use the Gmail SMTP server for outgoing mail instead of the normal MobileMe server. That way all my emails originate from my usual email domain and not some other email address. It also keeps everything on my GMail account so I can retrieve items using the GMail web client or the MobileMe web client. In my setup all email goes out under my business email address. On the desktop, I use Apple Mail client and browser depending on which device I happen to be using at the time.

Taxman, would you mind sharing a few more details? Are you just handling one email account? Do you just have the MobileMe account setup on your iPhone? Do you primarily use the web on your desktop? On your iPhone? Thanks!

pysbertech: I’ve had my two Gmail tabs open all day on the UMPC in Firefox. Once is my personal Gmail account and one is my GigaOm account. No issues, but bear in mind that one is a standard Gmail account, while one is Google Apps for Domains.

Gmail IMAP works great. What I’m experimenting with now is forwarding everything to my MobileMe email account so that it pushes to my iPhone and then using my GMail IMAP account for my hosted domain as the outgoing mail server on all my devices. So far so good.

The one issue I can see is two GMail accounts on two tabs. That can’t be done as best as I can tell unless you are using FireFox and the IE renderer add-on (IE Tabs). Since you are logged into GMail in FF you would use the IE renderer to access the second account.

If it was me, I would just forward everything to one GMail account. Link them all so you can send email as any of your addresses from within that one GMail account and never log in to any of them again.
That is what I do with all my email addys for the most part.

Good luck with making the switch.

I think working in the cloud is okay with Blogging as a profession. It might not work for Cad Design, Large spreedsheets, Photoshop, or Video Editing. Writing, emailing, taking pictures and posting them to a blog is completely doable with an internet connection. If you are going to be online all day per your profession, why not use it to do your work?

Jump with both feet into GMail, you won’t regret it except for some hassles finding ways to push it to mobile devices.

On the Mac, I highly recommend Mailplane. http://mailplaneapp.com/

(oh, and btw: congrats guys!!)

I knew I’d eventually get you to join me.