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Gmail push in native mail app?

dilutedq said:
People who keep suggesting other clients don't really get the point. The native client offers a better experience for a lot of reasons:

Actually Supports 6/6+ displays
Functions well with swipe back gesture
Quick gestures for mark as read, archive, delete
Great functionality with Notification Center.

There is no great way to get Push Gmail to your phone for free.

Some people forward it to their icloud email, but then you run into other small quirks as well. I just do fetch every hour, most of the time it's junk email anyways.
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Accompli has all those things and more. Tried it instead of the gmail app a week or so ago and don't want to go back at all!
 
Vertigo50 said:
I'll just throw this out there. I thought I couldn't live without push Gmail, and tried multiple solutions, including using the Gmail app for notifications but then viewing in the native app.

Then I thought I would just try the 15 minute fetch setting and see how it went. About a week later, I'm used to it, and it doesn't even occur to me anymore.

I realize that if you use it for business or if you do texting by email (which I sometimes do) it seems like 15 minutes is too long, but it has worked for me.

Do we really need our phone dinging INSTANTLY all the time anyway? (Rhetorical question)
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How do you find battery with 15 mins fetch, I used to forward to outlook but killed the battery.
 
dilutedq said:
People who keep suggesting other clients don't really get the point. The native client offers a better experience for a lot of reasons:

Actually Supports 6/6+ displays
Functions well with swipe back gesture
Quick gestures for mark as read, archive, delete
Great functionality with Notification Center.

There is no great way to get Push Gmail to your phone for free.
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It is you that doesn't get the point. Mailbox does everything you listed, but adds CUSTOMIZABLE swipes and snoozing. It's a great way to get push email for free.
 
dcpmark said:
It is you that doesn't get the point. Mailbox does everything you listed, but adds CUSTOMIZABLE swipes and snoozing. It's a great way to get push email for free.
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I wish Mailbox would have the option to turn off the 2 line previews.
 
DomC said:
I wish Mailbox would have the option to turn off the 2 line previews.
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And I wish it had the ability to forward an email from different email address than the one that received it like the stock Mail app can. But when I need to do that I just open up the email in the stock app.....not a big deal.
 
deep1 said:
How do you find battery with 15 mins fetch, I used to forward to outlook but killed the battery.
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I've never had battery life issues with push or with fetch, so I'm not a good test case. It seems fine now as well.
 
Got my invite to Google Inbox, and emails show up instantly! Inbox will take a bit of getting used to but initial impression is that it's super slick and is going to be my new default email app.
 
rbf1138 said:
Got my invite to Google Inbox, and emails show up instantly! Inbox will take a bit of getting used to but initial impression is that it's super slick and is going to be my new default email app.
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Emails show up instantly with the Gmail app too...most of the time, but it's not native and there's no way to make another app the true default email handler.
 
rbf1138 said:
Got my invite to Google Inbox, and emails show up instantly! Inbox will take a bit of getting used to but initial impression is that it's super slick and is going to be my new default email app.
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Inbox by Google doesn't seem to have true "push". I noticed that although I have read or deleted all new emails from my gmail, several still show up as unread in my Inbox by Google.
 
Sorry for a newb question, I am not a heavy email user and came from Android with Push. If I try one of these apps Mailbox/Accompli etc, will they still sync two-way with my native 6+ and iMac emails and my Google work email account.

Have also heard of Fantastical 2 just optimized for 6+.

I can't sync to my iCloud calendar atm, but may be the way I am set up and don't really need that.

I am working well atm after playing with the settings and Push is not critical. But, wouldn't mind trying another app.


Thanks

Ken
 
rugmankc said:
Sorry for a newb question, I am not a heavy email user and came from Android with Push. If I try one of these apps Mailbox/Accompli etc, will they still sync two-way with my native 6+ and iMac emails and my Google work email account.



Have also heard of Fantastical 2 just optimized for 6+.



I can't sync to my iCloud calendar atm, but may be the way I am set up and don't really need that.



I am working well atm after playing with the settings and Push is not critical. But, wouldn't mind trying another app.





Thanks



Ken
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While I can't really speak on the email apps that you mentioned, Fantastical is just awesome. I highly recommend it.
 
briankeith513 said:
While I can't really speak on the email apps that you mentioned, Fantastical is just awesome. I highly recommend it.
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Thanks wanted to try that

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saldawop said:
I use Mail and get push from Google. Did a Google search and found a work around where you set up a 2nd iCloud account. Then forward all gmail to that address, but still sends from my gmail account.

Edit: this is the guide I followed.
http://jonwestfall.com/2014/07/get-true-push-gmail-iphone-ios-device/
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Think I saw that link will look into it
 
ZombiePete said:
Setup an Outlook.com account with your Gmail address; you can send and receive from your Gmail account but still get the advantages of Outlook's exchange support. It evens syncs your notification across devices, so no more errant notification badges for messages you've already read.

The only major downside that I can see is that when you send messages, it'll append your address with a "Sent via..." message or some such thing. I can't remember exactly because I use iCloud for my mail now for simplicity's sake.
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How do you 'set up an outlook.com with your gmail address'?
 
wxnats said:
I love Mailbox (Dropbox) - I noticed Gmail's new app essentially is the same thing.
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Except no iPad support.
And no GApps support.

So out in cold. But aim hopeful to move back to native solution. Even better if Apple evolves their extension API for iOS9 to allow other apps to send email using other mail clients! Making GMail/Inbox app viable as a true default.
 
rbf1138 said:
Yep, that re-download happened to me several times yesterday and still happens a few times a week regularly.
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This was happening to me multiple times a day for a while earlier this fall. Eventually I removed NuevaSync's access to my Gmail accounts (my work address is Gmail Apps, but the grandfathered free version, so no EAS, plus also personal Gmail) and set both up to forward to Outlook.com accounts that can send as if they were the Gmail ones. No problem at all with push there. Migration took a while, but everything works very well now.

If anyone who's still using NuevaSync is finding that it's working better now, though, do please let the rest of us know. I had paid for another year of service right before it started getting wonky on me.
 
mikemadden said:
If anyone who's still using NuevaSync is finding that it's working better now, though, do please let the rest of us know. I had paid for another year of service right before it started getting wonky on me.
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I've stuck with NuevaSync since my last post and it has gotten way better. I haven't gotten the re-download inbox bug at all. Emails show up very quick. If I'm being picky, really the only complaint is if I read a message on my desktop in Thunderbird it doesn't mark as read on my iPhone instantly. It takes a little while to disappear. Other than that, they seemed to have fixed all the problems I talked about earlier.
 
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