Gmail, other email addresses, can they also push?

[izibo]

Gmail already has Push. At least, thats how it works on my K800i.

My W580i also gets push email from my gmail account. It's amazingly fast.

 

[Sonicjay]

Gmail for iPhone doesn't push right now. I have a ridiculous setup, but it works for me. I've used POP mail on my own domain for 11 years now. I got a .mac account a year and a half ago, and didn't really use the email piece until I got my iPhone, then tried it and really liked the benefits of IMAP. Unfortunately, the .Mac mail seems really unreliable to me, with messages randomly not being received for hours on end (on my desktop/laptop as well, not just the phone) as well as random and frequent downtime, so I then setup a Gmail account and tried that out. Well, I HATE gmail's refusal to let you create folders to sort mail, so I tried a Yahoo account. The push mail on Yahoo works fantastic; I receive emails as fast as SMS. I LOVE it; however, the stupid MMS workaround for sending to Verizon gets bounced when I send from yahoo, but usually works from Gmail.

So here's my setup that makes everything work:

My domain email --> forwards to my Yahoo
My .Mac email --> forwards to my Yahoo
My Gmail --> forwards to my Yahoo
Default mail account on iPhone: Gmail (sending pics uses default account, can't choose account, so added my Gmail, and set as default)

So I use Yahoo to receive ALL of my email, and send almost all of my email from it, except when mailing pics out from the iPhone, which uses gmail, since Verizon usually passes it. Sheesh..

 

[thefunkymunky]

Gmail for iPhone doesn't push right now. I have a ridiculous setup, but it works for me. I've used POP mail on my own domain for 11 years now. I got a .mac account a year and a half ago, and didn't really use the email piece until I got my iPhone, then tried it and really liked the benefits of IMAP. Unfortunately, the .Mac mail seems really unreliable to me, with messages randomly not being received for hours on end (on my desktop/laptop as well, not just the phone) as well as random and frequent downtime, so I then setup a Gmail account and tried that out. Well, I HATE gmail's refusal to let you create folders to sort mail, so I tried a Yahoo account. The push mail on Yahoo works fantastic; I receive emails as fast as SMS. I LOVE it; however, the stupid MMS workaround for sending to Verizon gets bounced when I send from yahoo, but usually works from Gmail.

So here's my setup that makes everything work:

My domain email --> forwards to my Yahoo
My .Mac email --> forwards to my Yahoo
My Gmail --> forwards to my Yahoo
Default mail account on iPhone: Gmail (sending pics uses default account, can't choose account, so added my Gmail, and set as default)

So I use Yahoo to receive ALL of my email, and send almost all of my email from it, except when mailing pics out from the iPhone, which uses gmail, since Verizon usually passes it. Sheesh..

Have you converted your Gmail account to IMAP? Push won't work via POP.

 

[Sonicjay]

Have you converted your Gmail account to IMAP? Push won't work via POP.

Yes. Still no push. Afaik, gmail wasn't supposed to be push enabled though. Anyhow, I don't like gmail anyway because of their "don't organize anything, just search" policy. I'm perfectly happy with Yahoo for now.

 

[AuburnTigerr]

Well, I HATE gmail's refusal to let you create folders to sort mail, so I tried a Yahoo account.

Gmail will let you set up folders, even though they aren't really called folders. They call them labels and you just label things with a certain name and all of the e-mails labeled appear in a folder together on the left hand side. For instance, I get recipes from friends and when I do, I just label them with 'Recipes' and they all appear together in the Recipes folder to the left. There is a drop down menu at the top used for labeling. I hope that helps somewhat

 

[rioja]

In theory, yes. Unfortunately, Yahoo! mail never pushes. I opened an email account with Yahoo! specifically for that and it never worked, so I don't use it.

As far as Gmail pushing, when I had a Blackberry 8700, the emails pushed every time but I think that had something to do with the Blackberry data plan I had with T-Mo. It was nice always getting my emails in a timely manner. I can go all day and not receive an email on my iPhone and the I get to a computer and check my Gmail and I have unread messages. Very annoying.

I have IMAP setup in Gmail. my iPhone is set to sync mail every minute. Sometimes I'll be sitting at my computer and a Gmail comes into my phone while I have Gmail open on my computer... I look at my screen and the message hasn't even come into Gmail yet!

It's extremely fast for me. You should try IMAP... for me, I can't imagine real push being that much different from what I'm getting now. Unless the difference is in data usage when not in a wifi zone.