MobileMe is a great service from Apple. The only downside is the price tag - $99 a year. It's ridiculous, especially if your company won't pay for it, even if you use if for corporate. But with a Google account, you can use Google for it and sync contacts, mail, and calendars.
Steps
1. Set up your calendar. Transfer your calendar to Google Calendar via your Google account.
2. Set up Gmail as a EXCHANGE account on your iDevice. Yes - an Exchange account. The server is m.google.com
3. Turn on Contacts, Calendar, and Mail.
4. Use!
Configure Thunderbird to Send MobileMe Mail
Thunderbird now appears to automatically configure itself (from an ISP database) with the correct settings for MobileMe SMTP upon initial account setup, but if it does not succeed here is a guide. Apple's support information is dated and inadequate. This guide is tailored to Thunderbird for Windows and based on version 3.1 but should work for other platforms.
Steps
1. Click on the Tools menu and select "Account Settings...."
2. In the Account Settings dialog box, click on the last list item on the left side, Outgoing Server (SMTP).
3. On the right side of the dialog box click either the Add button if there is no SMTP configuration currently or the Edit button if there is.
4. On the right side of the dialog box click either the Add button if there is no SMTP configuration currently or the Edit button if there is.
5. In the Port field type in port 587.
6. For Connection security, select STARTTLS.
7. For Authentication method, select Normal Password.
8. In the User Name field, enter your full email address (paying attention to whether you need to use @mac.com or @me.com based on your previous choice of server names in Step 4).
9. Click OK and then OK again and then try to send a message.
10. If you have successfully configured SMTP, you should be asked for your SMTP password and then your message should be sent.
