Push from other email without forwarding to MM?

[hockeynut]

I am coming from a Blackberry (not BES but rather BIS). Using BIS, I am able to have the Blackberry Internet Service push my emails to my device for any email server, without needing to forward it anywhere.

I want my email (user@host.com) to come directly to my iPhone without having to forward it to user@me.com.

Is there a way to do this, or do I need to use the old fashioned "checking for mail" each time I go into the mail app?

Thanks!

[Chwisch87]

Currently the only way to push, to the best of my knowledge, email to the iphone is mobileme.

[virus7]

Is there a way to do this, or do I need to use the old fashioned "checking for mail" each time I go into the mail app?

The Mail app can check for mail on a specified interval, you don't have to go into the app in order to see if new mail has arrived.

[d21mike]

Under Mail Preferences in MobileMe see "External Mail" see:
Check mail from an external POP account.

Here you can tell it to Fetch your email. However, I prefer to have my mail forwarded. I would assume that Forwarded Mail would get to your quicker. If MobileMe has to Fetch your mail it would do it on an interval.

[jackiecanev2]

right now, the only services that push to the iphone are mobileme and yahoo... sorry.

[Chwisch87]

Yahoo mail pushes to the iphone??? really now?

[Matthew Yohe]

Yahoo mail pushes to the iphone??? really now?

It has for two years and two days now.

[steve knight]

an exchange sever will do it. I had a email account using kerio and that pushed to the iphone. but all those services require you to get a email host.