I think you get the notifications with both (although push mails show up the moment they arrive in your inbox).
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Those with IOS 5, do you use e-mail push notifications?
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I think you get the notifications with both (although push mails show up the moment they arrive in your inbox).
Only thing i'm not sure on if with fetch every hour i will get my emails come up at the top of the screen like you do with texts.
I don't really use push notification, I usually just check my email when I feel like it. I don't get much email anyway. I've noticed that my battery life is a lot better without push notifications since I don't have them on.
Notifications are notifications, doesn't matter if push or fetch. When you put iOS 5 on, you go into notification settings and turn banner on for email and you'll get them. Push is instant and fetch when it checks.
Yeah I'm just wondering if I get 10 emails in an hour will they all pop up at the top of the screen like they would on push?
It'll prob say "you have 10 new emails" like when you yaks the smart cover off an iPad.
if you have email notifications turned on you will get notifications whenever you get new email,
if you have push email (where email is delivered to the handset as soon as the email is received) then you get the notification right then and there.
if you have fetch say for every 1hour then you will get a notification if you have new email when the phone checks.
Be Interesting to know for sure
So if you only have 1 email per hour it will only work? Seems odd
Anybody that has it in beta know this answer for sure?
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Yes but how would it come up at the top of the screen? Only the first email? If there was 10 would they appear one by one at the top of the screen?
Sorry if this has been answered before - I did a quick search but couldn't find an answer.
If you receive a text then another text say 0.5 seconds later, do the notifications stack on top of each other (so e.g. twice the height) or will the second one just replace the first one? I presume the latter but just wanted to know for sure.
If you receive a text then another text say 0.5 seconds later, do the notifications stack on top of each other (so e.g. twice the height) or will the second one just replace the first one? I presume the latter but just wanted to know for sure.
If you got 1 email an hour, it'd pop up as you've seen notification pop up, saying who it's from and a preview. if you get a bunch at once then i assume it would pop up as i described, which is based on what i have seen on my iPad and if that's already in place, makes sense that's what would happen, i've not tested it on iPhone as i don't get tons of emails in 1 go as mine's set to push, if i get the time, i might change it to fetch, then send 10 emails to myself to see.
I've had this happen, no they don't stack, they go one after the other, but the first one disappears when you get the new one. only had the 2 in short space of time.
Now whether this applies to the multiple email for fetch is an interesting thing. I don't see the point of fetch as you use the same amount of power and data as push.
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That would be good of you, I know it's a pain but since all my emails would be from fetch as I can't get push on mine it would be nice to know what to expect.
Good stuff, thanks for doing that
I can't get it as I use imap for my email which doesn't support it
gmail push, not through exchange?
Right, but I'm asking if ios 5 has REAL gmail push notifications. I use Exchange, but the problem is when you "delete" an email, it moves it to your "all mail" folder instead of actually deleting it. The only way to really delete an email is to move it to another folder you created for the purpose of trash, and then go empty the folder in the web UI. It's horrible. I want to just use the trash icon.
Right, but I'm asking if ios 5 has REAL gmail push notifications. I use Exchange, but the problem is when you "delete" an email, it moves it to your "all mail" folder instead of actually deleting it. The only way to really delete an email is to move it to another folder you created for the purpose of trash, and then go empty the folder in the web UI. It's horrible. I want to just use the trash icon.
That's strange because my gmail account is set up as an exchange account and when I delete a mail it goes directly to the trash of the mail account. It doesn't go to the All Mail folder....
Not sure how you got that to work! It's a known issue on the Google website.
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139635
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=161771
I don't think so. Go to Gmail on your computer and you'll see that all the mail You've deleted has actually been archived. I actually really like this but I can see why someone wouldn't. And the answer is iOS5 is the same as iOS4 in this respect. I think it's an issue with m.google.com server not the OS.
Thanks for the answer. That's really disappointing. I get a lot of junk emails from subscriptions (like Groupon) that I don't really want to keep, but don't want to unsubscribe from either. I'd rather not hang on to emails I don't need. That's probably my biggest gripe with my iPhone.