Fetch or Push

[Mad Mac Maniac]

What's the differnce? I noticed one of my emails is set up on fetch and the other with push.

Is one better?

[nickspohn]

Well, the name pretty much gives it away.

Push email is when your emails get pushed from the server they are sent to, so it's instant. But the server has to be set up for push (MobileMe)

Fetch is when the phone connects to the server to see if there is any new email at intervals of 15/30/60/manual minutes. etc.

[ki2594]

the people at AT&T said that even GMAIL pushes on the iPhone and i find that to be true?

[Fuchal]

the people at AT&T said that even GMAIL pushes on the iPhone and i find that to be true?

false

[memesmith]

false


What he said.

However it IS true that yahoomail pushes, though not with the reliability that Activesync and Exchange.

[Mad Mac Maniac]

Well, the name pretty much gives it away.

Push email is when your emails get pushed from the server they are sent to, so it's instant. But the server has to be set up for push (MobileMe)

Fetch is when the phone connects to the server to see if there is any new email at intervals of 15/30/60/manual minutes. etc.

Ok thanks. So basically since I'm not going to get mobileme i don't need to worry about push huh?

So if you choose the 'manual' setting how/when does it fetch? I don't recall seeing a 'fetch email now' button..

[mymacrumorse]

For battery life use fetch cos push takes a lots of juice out of it ...

[wonderbread57]

For battery life use fetch cos push takes a lots of juice out of it ...

I have heard that too but seems counter intuitive. If it fetches every 15 min then you are guaranteed to use extra juice every 15 min during fetch. But with push it should only "activate" the radio goods when it receives a push signal. I suppose it's the "always waiting for a push signal" that must drain the thing. Unfortunate.