Where does the mail icon come from ?
It’s beautiful

But this wasn’t about creating a perfect solution; rather, something that works for now, until Apple adds the functionality to the iPhone.

Gmail keeps your conversation intact, as long you use the ‘reply’ button rather than creating new mail. The recipient then receives a message with the subject line ‘RE: XYZ’ and the original message is quoted underneath. The email address it came from is irrelevant (you can set up your name to replace the address in the ‘from’ field) – all they have to do is hit reply.

This is silly.

First of all, POP? Really? Who uses POP anymore?

The eighties called and want their mail protocol back. Not even my grandmother uses POP anymore.

Seriously, IMAP is really the only way to go.

But the fatal flaw here is SENDING mail. Sure, you’re solution aggregates your email into one inbox. But then what? What happens when you want to send mail? You either have to use your aggragated inbox e-mail account (which would break all your email conversations and confuse your mom because it sends with a different e-mail address) or set up all your email accounts on the phone (you know, all the accounts you’re aggregating) and choose the ‘from’ account every time you send or reply from an email. Lame. Error prone. Silly.

Instead, just use one the email accounts you’ve already setup on the phone (because otherwise, you couldn’t send email from it in any situation).

This scenario just isn’t workable.

Btw, you could use hotmail, yahoo, fusemail, fastmail.fm, or whatever host to do this. There’s nothing special about gmail in this scenario.

You could also try keeping the fetched mail on the server. This can be done by clicking ‘Edit Info’ next to your other account under Gmail settings. It’s also set in Step 2 of this technique.