Push IMAP Solutions?

I'm using Google Sync for Push Gmail. Works wonderfully. No fetching required. Emails arrive instantly.

 

Google Sync actually piggybacks on the ActiveSync protocol. Which means that instead of creating a "GMail" mail account on my iPhone, I instead create an Exchange Account and use "m.google.com" as the Exchange server

I get push gmail, contacts, and calendar. I get all the benefits of my google services, along with TRUE real time PUSH =)


Purchase Exchange server and run it on your VPS.

 

Is there a way to clean up all the folders you get when you make the Exchange Gmail account? I've always preferred the simple Inbox, Sent, Drafts, and Trash and nothing else on my phone.

 

I forward my gmail and work email to MobileMe and that gets pushed.

 

*Doesn't apply to OP but I've seen some are using Gmail without Google Sync! and that's a blasphemy *

If you use Gmail, there is no need to forward it to anything or anywhere like the old days.
Google has services called Google Sync where it will push Mail, Contacts, and Calendar to your iPhone/iPad

Instruction is as follows
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252

Just remember to pick Exchange instead of Gmail when setting it up and stop forwarding stuff

 

Seeing as you run your own mail sever on a VPS have you considered Z-Push (http://z-push.sourceforge.net/) It's an open source PHP implementation of ActiveSync and requires a but if work to set up. Can be used with an IMAP backend and delivers push email to iPhones and other ActiveSync enabled devices! I have this running on my shared hosting service after a bit of work and the only limitation is that HTML email is experimental. There is a good forum there where you'll either find your answer or someone will be able to help you.

 

that's great and all and not to thread jack but why doesn't it sync my contacts and calendars to my gmail account? if i add something new it syncs but it won't sync content that was on my phone prior to set up!

 

Can your mail service forward a copy to another address?

Get the free 'Boxcar' app and set it up as if you're using G-mail. (Boxcar will think you're using G-Mail even if you're not...doesn't matter.)

You forward a copy from your mail to Boxcar and Boxcar gives you a push notice with the e-mail's subject line. Then you can even leave mail on 'manual check' to save battery. Just open it whenever Boxar sends a notice and it will fetch the message.

 

I'm thinking of 2 things that may cause this:
1. Sync interval. It doesn't sync contact right away once you made modification (unlike Push Mail)
2. The old contents are not in the Gmail exchange contact group? I would just add those numbers from Google Contacts and delete the original number from your phone.

 

I use mail notifier and keep gmail on manual too. this really saves batteries push gmail is a big battery sucker. but you can still setup an account to push calendar and contacts with no real battery hits.

 

I push contacts and calendars through my google apps account set up as an exchange server but I turned off push mail, and created a standard imap profile for that to save battery. Fetching every half hour isn't that big a deal to me, emails don't need to have the urgency of text messages...

 

This is awesome! If you right here I would give you a big man hug!

I know have my work e-mail and gmail syncing through Exchange and my personal contacts and calendar syncing through MobileMe. I am coolness now!

Steve

 

Do you have any specific need to host your own mail server on the VPS? I have a few VPS's as well for various projects - but I leave all of the mail handling up to Google Apps (free version). For any form submissions on my pages, I just use plain old sendmail and disabled all relay settings. (only local/apache user can send email)

Then once you have Google Apps running - use Google Sync. (setup as Exchange acocunt) This solution works perfect!

 

Thank you this was VERY helpful!!!!! It works!!!!!

 

does anyone find the search feature sucks with google sync? I mean I know the search email feature on the iphone sucks anyways but isn't it especially bad with google sync? I switched back to imap just because of how bad the search was. It seems to be a problem with loading the messages. I have it set to load 30 days but still its weird.

 

How hard is it on the battery?

 

I have an account with Rackspace and my email boxes there use IMAP. Rackspace supports the IMAP IDLE command and in order to get essentially instant notification on my iPhone (actually 6 or so seconds delay due to the latency of the links) I use the Pushmail app which is available on the iPhone store.

This is highly configurable and is bullet-proof reliable and the author is constantly updating it. Here is the website:

http://dopushmail.com/

 

Thanks for the tip!

I set it up and it seems to work fine, with the exception of one thing. Whenever I try to search for an email in my inbox and click "Continue search on the server" it doesn't work, even though I have set the exchange sync to unlimited in the settings. Is this an inherent problem with the program or is there a setting I can play around with?

Thanks in advance!

 

search mail issue

the problem that I'm experiencing with using gmail thru google sync, is that I cannot retrieve emails by searching for them. It will only search among emails send few months back, but never through the entire mailbox...
Some other folks have described the issue on the apple forums too.

 

Unfortunately, I haven't tried this myself heh

The poster above me seemed to indicate the same problem as you...