Gmail/IMAP

google calls it push

I haven't tried it yet. Still waiting for my iPhone to come.

But according to google and one blog post I read earlier, it works great & offers the same benefits as push email. Is it technically push? I dont exactly understand. This is probably not a great 1st post... I'm just excited to get my new phone.

I'd also like to hear from someone that has it set up though.

 

i haven't had any problems with it at all.

 

Has worked perfectly for me. Even when version 1.1.4 was out.

 

It's not 100% push as when you aren't in mail it doesn't sync, but you can get it to fetch as little as every 15 minutes outside of mail (separate setting). It works fine as far as I can tell. Works well enough for my non-critical purposes. I wouldn't use it for stuff like on-call notifications though.

 

I heard if you set up the Gmail account on your iPhone according to Gmail's online iPhone tutorial, then it works really well.

This is the video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=uQ22euWXYog

It was posted by Google several months ago so I'm wondering if Apple configured the Gmail IMAP settings properly in the default email account screen on your iPhone.

 

is there a push solution

So does anyone know if there is a solution out there for your gmail to actually push to the iphone with gmail? you know... instantly?

I dont get emails that are so crucial they cant wait 15 minutes, but I'd really like to get thim instantly....

 

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eh it is a lil scetchy...sometimes it doesn't fetch automatically like I have it set for every 15 minutes..
This morning I had an email at 7am but at 10pm my iPhone mail icon still showed no new messages...after I clicked on the mail icon and it synced it showed my new emails I received a couple of hours ago...

 

I have been using an IMAP gmail account for awhile and have been very pleased with it. I can easily keep track of my email with my iMac, MBA, or iPhone. Much better than pop when using more than one computer. No more mail folders to worry about backing up either. I guess if google were ever to tank then I would be in a bit of a pickle.

 

yes that should work both ways, if you are setup as IMAP

 

Am I the only one whose GMAIL iMap mail stalls while retrieving?

My Gmail iMap retrieval works about 75% of the time. I push refresh and the iPhone (3G) grabs the incoming mail correctly MOST of the time.

The other 25% of the time it either takes forever (I get tired of watching the spinning ball so I don't know if it finishes) to get the mail.

My trick to get it to complete is to back out of inbox and go to my empty draft box. If I sit in the draft box the email times out (spinning ball stops) then I can go into my inbox without much of a problem.

I think the issues is that if the iMap errors out -- the mail program doesn't properly time out or has a very long timeout.

Anyone find this to be an issue on their device?

 

Here is what you need. Mail2Web, it's free and is working great for me.
However, it takes a minute or two to forward mails from gmail to mail2web, but then it pushes it instantly.


http://lifehacker.com/398526/set-up-push-email-contacts-and-calendar-on-your-iphone-for-free