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Push Gmail workaround guide
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So does that mean if I already have push set up now on my iPad 3 under iOS 6 I won't lose it when I upgrade to iOS 7?
Correct. It goes by your actual device ID. But if you ever replace your ipad, you will lose your push email. I had hoped it would have been grandfathered at the account level, but it is not.
Interesting. Thanks for the detailed write-up.
As an alternative you can in fact do the same thing with the iCloud account as opposed to an outlook account.
Here's what I do:
I have a rented personal email service under my own domain. Unfortunately, it is POP3 only and doesn't support push. I could add Exchange services to it but that's not that cheap and I don't feel like switching providers for a variety of reasons.
So what I do is essentially emulate what I've been doing for years with my Blackberry (where this was easy to setup and actually intended to be used this way). I forward all incoming messages to my iCloud address which immediately pushes them to my iPhone.
Problem is that iCloud (officially) doesn't allow the "sent from" address to be changed. So instead I'm setting up the iCloud account manually with the generic server settings I found somewhere and then use my own server as outgoing.
I'm pretty sure this type of setup would work with a Gmail account as well for those who prefer that.
Why in this day and age we have to jump through hoops just to get push mail from our preferred email service in an email app of our choice is beyond me. Like I said, the old Blackberry BIS and BES services were the easiest to use and most reliable for stuff like this. What a shame.
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Does that support push mail? I thought only the generic Apple mail app handles push mail? (on those days where it's actually working without hiccups)
As an alternative you can in fact do the same thing with the iCloud account as opposed to an outlook account.
Here's what I do:
I have a rented personal email service under my own domain. Unfortunately, it is POP3 only and doesn't support push. I could add Exchange services to it but that's not that cheap and I don't feel like switching providers for a variety of reasons.
So what I do is essentially emulate what I've been doing for years with my Blackberry (where this was easy to setup and actually intended to be used this way). I forward all incoming messages to my iCloud address which immediately pushes them to my iPhone.
Problem is that iCloud (officially) doesn't allow the "sent from" address to be changed. So instead I'm setting up the iCloud account manually with the generic server settings I found somewhere and then use my own server as outgoing.
I'm pretty sure this type of setup would work with a Gmail account as well for those who prefer that.
Why in this day and age we have to jump through hoops just to get push mail from our preferred email service in an email app of our choice is beyond me. Like I said, the old Blackberry BIS and BES services were the easiest to use and most reliable for stuff like this. What a shame.
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Does that support push mail? I thought only the generic Apple mail app handles push mail? (on those days where it's actually working without hiccups)
my push worked great before the update, now it no longer pushes emails to my phone, anyone know why that would be?
some people DON'T WANT TO!
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this does not solve anything.
the problem is: we want to use the default mail app and get push.
your solution is to use another app.
it's very, very annoying when people try to shove their way of life down other peoples' throats. if he didn't care to use the default mail app, don't you think he'd at least be using the gmail app and have push and wouldn't bother taking all the time to write all this detailed info on how we can make that happen?
OP--thank you for taking the time to give us a real solution to the problem.
I don't like Mailbox's concept. I've been using the Gmail app, but it is very slow to load sometimes and I really like the new Apple Mail app's interface.
No, I also have multiple gmail accounts. I just created a different folder for each one, and set the rule to have them organized into their respective folders from within outlook. If you go back to the 3rd step of the instructions its outlined there, and you can see in the last screenshot what you could expect the app to look like with 2 gmail accounts, though this is easily scalable to more.
I am trying to set up my send-from account in outlook.com but it keeps telling me "Please make sure your email address and password are correct. If you keep seeing this error, try Advanced options. " My username and password are correct....
what would cause this?
what would cause this?
Still not working for me today....argh!...another question....let's assume we both get this working...will we still have to go into gmail and clean out the same mail that we have read on our iphone?
Theoretically, you can set your gmail account to delete the message after it forwards so that you do not have to clear it out. As I mentioned, earlier in this thread, however, I was unable to get gmail to forward to outlook.com. No matter, the delete is set up when you set up the forwarding.
You don't need an outlook account to do this....
I've posted this before, but I've been doing this forever because I hate the gmail clients.
Step 1 -set gmail to auto forward to your icloud email. I know you have one, you have an iphone.
Step 2 -go into the mail settings on iphone and disable every SMTP server except the gmail one. This way every email you send will use gmail and not iclould.
Step 3- Profit! ....and push email. Works great for me.
I've posted this before, but I've been doing this forever because I hate the gmail clients.
Step 1 -set gmail to auto forward to your icloud email. I know you have one, you have an iphone.
Step 2 -go into the mail settings on iphone and disable every SMTP server except the gmail one. This way every email you send will use gmail and not iclould.
Step 3- Profit! ....and push email. Works great for me.
nah.
when u set up mail forwarding in gmail, there's a box that gives you options on what to do with the email once it's forwarded. options are:
keep in inbox
delete
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