Hmm interesting! I will have to try this. But will the emails show up at all in my gmail account?
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Hmm interesting! I will have to try this. But will the emails show up at all in my gmail account?
First, you do get your email right away which is nice if you're waiting on that one very important email that you would not rather wait 15 minutes for (for instance, your notification on this thread that And5555 replied to you).
Second and more important (to me), push services tend to preserve on battery life. You have one service running in the background (such as your already existent SMS service) that will respond to any instant notification and then let you know know. In this process, a) you already have a background service running so there's not much of a performance hit, and b) you are not constantly polling your email server(s) every 15 minutes (which does hurt your battery life).
#2 in the wake of Mossberg's dissatisfaction with battery life could be a very big deal.
Damon Hill, is the push notification free with a standard yahoo account, or do you have to then get mobileMe and/or a premier yahoo account?
Great solution, i can get mail fine, but sending is the problem, if I follow step 5 authentication fails and it wont let me use it. Is there any way to make yahoo automatically make the reply show up from the gmail address, gmail has this feature, and i dont mean on the iphone end, somewhere in the yahoo settings can i make it appear that way? Or a way to make g-mail act as a proxy basically, like have yahoo forward it to the gmail once i send it and then have gmail send it on the right way?
The way I set mine up which seems to be working well for most that have tried it is just changing the From: address from within ymail to select my gmail account. So ymail is setup normal and gmail is setup normal, no changing the ymail account to gmail in the settings
Let me ask you geniuses one question.
How do you expect a third party company (Google) to push to a device they know nothing about?
Don't answer a question with a question. Don't ask "Well how do Blackberries do it?"
Think, McFly, THINK.
How do you expect a third party company (Google) to push to a device they know nothing about?
Don't answer a question with a question. Don't ask "Well how do Blackberries do it?"
Think, McFly, THINK.
Apple is introducing a general push notification service in the next SDK. I can see Google releasing a G-Talk client with gmail push notification that calls up Mail when you open an email.
The push notification service will open up a lot of new functionality on the iphone...
The push notification service will open up a lot of new functionality on the iphone...
I use gmail and am very satisfied with the IMAP performance. My email shows up quickly and it shows the same message moves/deletions at home or online. It's free and works (better than Yahoo! IMHO).
Here are the details on my setup which explains how to change the from and all that
http://whenwillapple.com/saywhy/2008/07/23/my-iphone-gmail-push-work-aroundthanks-ymail/
The same way Yahoo does it? eh? I find it strange that iPhone has such tight integration with google (maps, default search, etc), but yahoo is using push and gmail isn't.
The below solution did not work for me. I know longer can reply to e-mails if you do what it says (by swapping the yahoo address after it is setup).
A work around I figured out was to add another pop3 account (in my case I want my return address to be my work...so I added that). But instead of filling out the information to pull down the e-mails...I left that section blank and just filled out the information for sending e-mails. This will give you an error if you ever try to view that inbox on the iphone (but why would you...its just there as a dummy box).
Now...when you are in your yahoo box (on the iphone) and get ready to reply to an e-mail...just click the "Cc/Bcc, From: field" it will be gray...it will then change to adding a CC and BCC fields...but it will ALSO then allow you to select the FROM field. Click it..and your "dummy" box will show up there. Select it...now when you send the e-mail it will use the out going information from that account to send it. Walaah!
Hope that made sense?
So what I do...is collect all my e-mails using gmail (which does not have push) because it has great spam filters...then I forward that to yahoo (which does have push). Grab my e-mails using it (with the spam removed via gmail) and then when I reply or send new...just use the out-going information on my dummy box (which is my pop3 work e-mail) that way the e-mail looks like it came from work (because it did).
So incoming works like this...work --> gmail --> yahoo --> iphone
Outgoing is just -->work (using dummy account)
Oh what a wicked web we weave...
A work around I figured out was to add another pop3 account (in my case I want my return address to be my work...so I added that). But instead of filling out the information to pull down the e-mails...I left that section blank and just filled out the information for sending e-mails. This will give you an error if you ever try to view that inbox on the iphone (but why would you...its just there as a dummy box).
Now...when you are in your yahoo box (on the iphone) and get ready to reply to an e-mail...just click the "Cc/Bcc, From: field" it will be gray...it will then change to adding a CC and BCC fields...but it will ALSO then allow you to select the FROM field. Click it..and your "dummy" box will show up there. Select it...now when you send the e-mail it will use the out going information from that account to send it. Walaah!
Hope that made sense?
So what I do...is collect all my e-mails using gmail (which does not have push) because it has great spam filters...then I forward that to yahoo (which does have push). Grab my e-mails using it (with the spam removed via gmail) and then when I reply or send new...just use the out-going information on my dummy box (which is my pop3 work e-mail) that way the e-mail looks like it came from work (because it did).
So incoming works like this...work --> gmail --> yahoo --> iphone
Outgoing is just -->work (using dummy account)
Oh what a wicked web we weave...