Push E-Mail

markybaby · 18-09-2008, 11:23 PM

Trying to work this one out as the advert says 'needs microsoft exchange'. Do I have to pay extra for push e-mail with a yahoo e-mail address or do I just set up the mobile e-mail account and Bob's your Uncle?

saracen · 20-09-2008, 7:38 AM

Yahoo email is free and will push to your iPhone and works very well. MobileMe (from Apple) is free (for a limited time then £59 per year) but is having a few problems I understand. MobileMe also does push to the iPhone.

You could pay for an exchange account. 1and1 offer this service. There might be others available.

welsh113 · 20-09-2008, 7:54 AM

£59 per month? Its £59 per year

saracen · 20-09-2008, 8:12 AM

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Originally Posted by welsh113

£59 per month? Its £59 per year

£59 a year - that's what I said!

LOL! Sorry, think it was too early to be posting!

markybaby · 21-09-2008, 4:37 PM

Thanks for that. Now just the long wait for my orange contract to be up in January.........................

Bantocks · 22-09-2008, 5:51 PM

Ouch. £59 a year sounds steep for push email.

Any providers do it cheaper. I'm looking to set this up but don't want to pay this much.

edit - Should have said. I have a hotmail and bt yahoo email account already. If I could get those to push it would be fantastic. Any ideas?

wildy74 · 22-09-2008, 6:20 PM

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Originally Posted by harvey 73

Ouch. £59 a year sounds steep for push email.

Any providers do it cheaper. I'm looking to set this up but don't want to pay this much.

edit - Should have said. I have a hotmail and bt yahoo email account already. If I could get those to push it would be fantastic. Any ideas?

I have BT Yahoo and it woks fine, although only for email.
I use 1and1.co.uk for exchange hosting for my own web email, calendar and contacts and have a mobile me account. All work great.

Hope this helps

CJSIMPSON · 22-09-2008, 7:04 PM

I have done a bit of digging round and I would like push email but not sure if its possible for me. I have a sky email address and want to know if anybody know a free way to get this via push. I believe that googlemail hosts the sky email addresses so is there a way i can tweakt it and get it on that? I don't want to change email addresses and dont want to pay for it either it would be just nice to have.

P.S. I know I can forward it to a yahoo mail address and get push from that but thats an extra link in the chain for problems to occur so dont really want to use that method

JonStatt · 22-09-2008, 9:33 PM

Just to be clear.

Push email means the phone is permanently connected to the internet and email is pushed by the mail server as and when it arrives.

Pull email means the phone is set to check for new email every X minutes (e.g. 5 minutes).

A lot of people think a phone that is set to permanently check for email every few minutes is push email when it isn't.

Exchange was one of the first corporate mail servers to support true push technology and is therefore often mentioned in advertisements for this feature.

I haven't explored Yahoo and others, but are these TRUE push email capable?
THis means email arrives within seconds of it being sent without the phone polling for new email itself.

zantarous · 22-09-2008, 10:55 PM

Yahoo offer true push email on the iphone, mail arrives more or less instantly.

JonStatt · 22-09-2008, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by zantarous

Yahoo offer true push email on the iphone, mail arrives more or less instantly.

Excellent. As a BT Broadband subscriber I guess I never realised I have this feature with my BT Yahoo email account.

zantarous · 22-09-2008, 11:09 PM

I a can't say if this works with the BT addresses, is your email a @yahoo or does it have a BT prefix? Simple way to test if you set up a new account chose the Yahoo option and this walks you through the steps. It is really good. I have my own domain as well and have just been looking at 1&1 for push email for that, but as I don't use that for work I can't justify the £7 a month for it.

if I can pick up a cheap machine my flat mate used to be a MS reseller and has some of the software at home so that might be a better option for me.

Shaunio · 23-09-2008, 8:30 AM

I use MobileMe and it's excellent with the iPhone, it has:

Push email
Push contacts
push calendars

Any changes in contacts or calendars made on the iPhone or on the web are synced immediately. It has been really handy a couple of times too, once when I got a new iPhone and once when I had to restore mine - all I had to do was enter my username and password and all my contacts and calendars synced through the air to my phone.

On top of that with MobileMe you get 20GB of space to use as you like across iDisk (online storage) and web galleries.

It had it's problems at first but is pretty stable now.

saracen · 23-09-2008, 9:01 AM

MobileMe is a good service now but it isn't free and there is talk that others will be offering push services soon for free.

gfunk303 · 23-09-2008, 11:32 AM

I use gmail it works a treat

and its free

saracen · 23-09-2008, 11:36 AM

I currently have my hotmail forwarded to my Gmail. I also have ymail and MobileMe accounts too - all of which I am testing to see which I prefer. I'm thinking that I'll ditch the Ymail (it's good but I've had my hotmail account for years and don't want to switch) and MobileMe (£59 a year is too much really) and just stick with the hotmail and Gmail combo.

JonStatt · 23-09-2008, 8:57 PM

I have an old Pipex account which is my main email box. Although I have my own domain, which forwards to the Pipex account....the email address I registered with companies with, were all the Pipex ones.

I can't see any way to forward Pipex email to another account..so I think I am hosed unless i change the underlying email account.

Oh well, a lot of re-registering to do I guess!

stormjai · 25-09-2008, 8:22 AM

i've set up hotmail > gmail...

is gmail proper push??

my wife blackberry receives mail as soon as it arrives....

have to keep connecting and "pulling" from inbox to check for mail??

any advice?

ta

saracen · 25-09-2008, 8:27 AM

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Originally Posted by stormjai

i've set up hotmail > gmail...

is gmail proper push??

my wife blackberry receives mail as soon as it arrives....

have to keep connecting and "pulling" from inbox to check for mail??

any advice?

ta

Gmail is not proper push (at the moment). You will need to keep connecting to check your mail. Or you can set the phone to check at regular intervals, 15mins, 30 mins or 1 hour. I have mine set to 1 hour as I just need to keep updated on my mail and don't really need to know the instant a mail arrives.