Consider yourself an iPhone hack0r?
Well, Just Blaze and I need your help. We’re looking for someone to hack the iPhone for us and manually change the "reply-to" address in Yahoo! mail. Note: This has to be done from the default Yahoo! setup menu on the iPhone and not the custom mail setup so our push email (if you can even call that push email) will still work. For all you dummies out there, let’s say Just’s Yahoo! email address is justblaze@yahoo.com, when someone emails that email address and it is delivered to the iPhone and he responds from the iPhone, he needs it to say it’s from a custom email address like xyz@xyz.com. It does not have to be an additional field in the setup area, it can be a manual hack that we have to install. First person to make this work gets $500 via PayPal, a personally signed gift from Just Blaze himself, and an appearance on our next BGR TV episode (pending you are in the New York area).
I can’t do this but I wish anyone that can the best of luck.
I bet someone is almost through with the task as we speak! The BGR fan base is loaded with talent. Get ‘em Fly Rod!
I can take a crack at it but no guarantees.
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
Get READY TO HACK THE IBRICK!
Good idea and good promotion.
btw gal shouldnt you be happy, didnt you say you like things that arent locked down? can anyone hold a “lets hack a blackberry” contest?
lol BTW they spelled haker wrong lol yea i should be happy
hacker* lol
Hax0r perhaps?
mor like h4×0r
I don’t have an iphone so I’m not sure what the big deal is and hence can’t try this, but can’t you just set your outgoing SMTP server to some other site that has authenticated SMTP and then have a procmail script on it that rewrites your headers for you based on unlimited criteria, and resend it out?
Example, use a weird character at end of subject and use that as the flag. Like, if subject ends in a # rewrite from header to xxx and strip # from subject, if subject ends in a $ rewrite header to yyy and strip $ from subject.
Or if to address is to domain example.com rewrite from header to…
Not as elegant as actually doing it on the phone itself, but I’ve done this sort of thing to fake in MMS headers to allow me to post pics to moblog sites via email on my phone so I don’t have to pay MMS charges, for example.
If you don’t have a Linux/Unix box around (er, ah, really though, you do own a Mac though, right?) then you can get a virtual private “box” at a company like johncompanies that just does email and DNS for like $15/month.
I think my favorite part about this is Gal pointing out someone elses spelling error. LOL!! Although, I am impressed with your nearly spelling error free post.
@ BG – are you going to tell us all how to do the hack when you find out? I would like to know how since I may want to do the same thing.
My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it!
It can be done but not by hacking the iPhone (at least not for $500 and an autograph…. i’m not a groupie). Email me with DETAILED information on what you want to have done, please don’t assume that the phone needs to be hacked (cause it doesn’t ).
well if i can get BG broken iphone then i can fix that one and do this hack as well.