<p>Hey Guys, </p>
<p>Has anyone figured out how to add their regular @ucla.edu address as an exchange account on their iphone?</p>
<p>UCLA’s mail servers don’t support Exchange ActiveSync. The best you can do is IMAP.</p>
<p>My solution:
- Forward all UCLA mail to a Gmail label.
- Add that Gmail account as an exchange account, enabling push sync on the UCLA label (called a folder on the iPhone).
- Add the UCLA email account as an IMAP account, just so that I can send as that address.</p>
<p>It’s not very smooth at all, especially sending, since I have to specify the address I’m sending from, but mail is pushed to my phone, which is sufficient for me.</p>
<p>The main reason I actually went this route was that I was was already forwarding my UCLA mail, and so this would have been the only way for me to make it work.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, that should work I suppose. Cmon ucla, get with the times! haha</p>
<p>did you tell ucla email to forward everything or did you tell gmail to “pull” everything from ucla?</p>
<p>I told UCLA email to forward everything.</p>
<p>UCLA email still doesn’t support Exchange ActiveSync?</p>
<p>Sheesh.</p>
<p>I’m holding out hope that they’ll just abandon the current client for gmail like other colleges. Not really optimistic though.</p>
<p>I got mine to work following these instructions.
[BOL</a> and the iPhone](<a href=“http://www.bol.ucla.edu/help/howto/iphone/]BOL”>http://www.bol.ucla.edu/help/howto/iphone/)</p>
<p>Right, that’s the IMAP approach, which is the standard way to do it. The downside is that mail is fetched, not pushed (like it is with ActiveSync).</p>