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do you push or fetch your emails?

Don Kosak said:
If you're not receiving emails immediately, double check that your notification settings are turned on for the Mail App (Settings > Notifications > Mail). Some people have had luck deleting and reentering accounts, or playing with network settings.

I'm not sure why Push seems flaky for some people - I think maybe something in the upgrade to iOS 5 might have trashed some people's settings. That would explain why just deleting an account and reentering it would fix the problem.
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I've deleted my mail settings and re-entered them again... The push still doesn't work..

I still have to manually hit the mail app for my mail to appear....
 
I have one Gmail and two AOL emails on my phone, and all three are set to manually fetch every 15 minutes. There's no way to push AOL emails and I haven't bothered setting up my Gmail address as an Exchange account since I don't get many emails on there.

The free email through iCloud, however, is automatically pushed, which is nice.
 
I have an account through Rackspace which supports both IMAP and Exchange but do not have a need for the latter. Rackspace supports IMAP IDLE but sadly iOS still does not support it although IMAP IDLE is a true push email delivery system. I have worked around this using the excellent Pushmail app which is extremely configurable and does everything I need.
 
I have to have push. When I first got my 4S(my first iPhone) I was shocked it wouldn't let gmail push. So I then started setting up an iCloud account and going through the pain staking process of changing everything over. Luckily I decided to have my gmail forward for a couple days to see how I like iCloud email and in the mean time learned about setting up gmail as exchange. It's harder on the battery but more than worth it to me.

Push is fast to. I can send a test email to my gmail account and it's on my phone faster than I can refresh the webpage on my PC.
 
The Game 161 said:
Push and to be honest I Havnt seen a big difference in battery life and I get alot of emails
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Same here. But that's just us.

I can very well imagine that some people will want to use fetch with a long-set retrieval if they live in a poor signal area, or if they cannot charge their iPhones for a longer period of time.

It also depends a little bit on how many of those emails you open in the field and deal with, and how many of those emails contain large images or large file attachments, and whether you've had to download those files and images to deal with something.
 
Question,

Is it possible to set up an iCloud email account through Microsoft Exchange similar to the way one would set up the Gmail account? There bypassing the iCloud system prefs to save power?
 
verwon said:
No, you can delete.
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No, you cannot.

vitzr said:
Yes you're correct. It's one of the features of I enjoy. Google gives us so much storage space, I can wait & delete just once a week via filters I've created. It's an extra measure of safety I've found useful.
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What type of filters have you created?
I personally would like to be able to delete.
 
After extensive testing (Yahoo & Gmail) over a one year period, I find Gmail via Exchange a great solution. Fast, reliable, and syncing my mail, contacts, & calendar, I like it better than the other options. Mine allows a choice of deleting as well. Yet even at that, I only delete using Googles automated option.
 
ixodes said:
After extensive testing (Yahoo & Gmail) over a one year period, I find Gmail via Exchange a great solution. Fast, reliable, and syncing my mail, contacts, & calendar, I like it better than the other options. Mine allows a choice of deleting as well. Yet even at that, I only delete using Googles automated option.
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Yeah.. I set up my girlfriend's gmail account via exchange and her email is pushed...

But I went from mobileme to cloud... and my email isn't pushed..
 
I had gmail push setup for the last year on an iPhone 4 but my 4s the mail app constantly crashes in the background so I get no mail. Anyone know a fix for this. I have set it to fetch and no crashing. But I prefer push but it's not reliable. Any ideas guys
 
For those who aren't aware, you can now delete Gmail emails when setup through exchange on iOS.

go to m.google.com/sync, login and select the device you want, on the next page is an option to delete emails.
Select that then save.

It does work, I've been using it for the last few days.

Hope this helps someone.
 
Gmail exchange with my work email, iCloud for personal. A problem I'm having with iCloud is that the push doesn't always work, sometimes it's several hours until I get it. Not sure what's going on there. Anyone have any IMO
It on that?
 
I have my Apple @me email set to push. I only have a few friends and family who know about that address so if they send and email I want it right away. My other @yahoo account I use for internet purchases and things like that so everyone has it now after 7 years of use. I have that set to manual fetching only.
 
mine is set to Fetch manually.
i just don't need to be alerted for every single email all day, especially at work. i check my email frequently enough as is.
 
Dopeyman said:
Is anyone still having this problem???

My email is still not pushing...
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I've been having that problem for the longest time! Setting an deleting accounts! It's set to push- but it won't PUSH!

I have Yahoo!
 
I have 6 account all setup through Exchange, much faster retrieval.

1 Hotmail
4 Gmail
1 Exchange server
 
I just discovered that my Hotmail does indeed push. This is a YAHOO problem.
 
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