Push email recommendations?

[trapper]

I'm getting a Hermes, mainly for the push mail function. Although the problem is that I don't have access to an Exchange server, so I was wondering what services other people use and how they rate them. As I've mentionned in another post, I have a GMail account, and I'd like to try and keep that, although if need be I would be willing to setup another e-mail account.

Many thanks,

Dave

[barking_mad_mark]

I use www.4smartphone.net and find it amazing. You have to pay a small fee to sign up but it is well worth it.

Mark

[trapper]

Am I right in thinking that I can't use that with my GMail account?

[karanbir]

You can forward your gmail account to your exchange account. Gmail has an option to save mail on their server and forward at the same time. I do that.
I use Exchange hosting from http://www.1and1.com they'r reliable and cheapest. $20 for 3 months.


~Karanbir

[Quilliam]

1and1 has a cheap exchange server if you have a domain. (so like 5 a year for the domain plus whatever their exchange server cost).

It worked but I started to hate that I couldn't put in my "real" e-mail adress. (not sure if all servers are like this, but on theirs all your outgoing mail says exactly what your e-mail is, and I like to use a different reply to mail adress.)

So I stopped using it.

Here is an odd little aside though. The Flexmail beta version works as true push (even though you still can't select the push icon in the comm manager).


But the beta only worked on my everyone.net imap4 account and not on my 1and1 imap4...

[stefanhutu]

You can always use www.mail2web.com. And it's free. You get 1 gig e-mail address, push-mail, outlook web acces, and so on. Is supports ActiveSync over GPRS/3G. I think the only drawback is the connection speed, maybe country specific. I live in Romania, and it takes a little while to get synched, even on 3G connection. Anyway, push mail works really great.

Cheers

[lindseyp]

I too use mail2web. You can send "From:" the mail address of your choice (providing it's yours) as an extra service for a mere 60c per month or so. Otherwise it's free and works great.

Their free service doesn't allow you to set the "From" address to anything other than yourname@mail2web.com, 60c per month gets you anything you like.

[ercave1]

I highly recommend http://www.cortado.com. Their service is fast, reliable and costs only about 6$ a month w/ a two month trial period for free. I have been using this service for about six months and have been very pleased with the service. Their Webmail menus have icons with labels in german, which aren't difficult to figure out. This isn't a problem for me as I hardly ever find myself needing to access my account via webmail.

[Applestar]

Well, I use my HERMES without the Push-Mail feature: As long as you use GPRS you can check your eMails every 5 Minutes without loosing considerably on battery life. I do that with my gMail account (POP3, SSL-encrypted) - works perfectly. Nice feature: gMail will automaticly archive all mails you collected via POP3.

No fees, no forwarding etc. and 5 minutes of "lag" should be ok for most of us.

To switch between 3G/UMTS and GPRS when needed and preserve battery you can use "BandSwitch" - you will find the free application on this site in the Hermes forums. Its beatifully designed.

[djslash]

I've been using mail2web also for quite a while now and I'm very happy with it. Best of all: it's free ;-)

[sol95]

if you don't mind leaving your desktop computer on all the time, then www.emoze.com is a viable option.

It runs an app on your desktop that "pushes" all the mail you receive in your Outlook inbox out to your device...

[MetalMushroom]

Yup - web2mail here too. It's free and I generally get my gmail mail pushed to my handset before it gets to my PC. No real complaints.

Also from this site there is http://www.port88.org/ which also free.

The main draw back that I have found from web2mail is that I can not overwrite the reply address to a non-'web2mail' address unfortunately.

[tkeebler]

Does anybody have any thoughts on how Push versus POP affects battery life?

[hellejoep]

Yup - web2mail here too. It's free and I generally get my gmail mail pushed to my handset before it gets to my PC. No real complaints.

Also from this site there is http://www.port88.org/ which also free.

The main draw back that I have found from web2mail is that I can not overwrite the reply address to a non-'web2mail' address unfortunately.

I have the problem that I can sync over wifi with web2mail, but it doesn't work over 3G web 'n walk dutch t-mobile, any ideas?

Problem found; my 3G is not working on my current location................

[robertn]

I too use mail2web. You can send "From:" the mail address of your choice (providing it's yours) as an extra service for a mere 60c per month or so. Otherwise it's free and works great.

Their free service doesn't allow you to set the "From" address to anything other than yourname@mail2web.com, 60c per month gets you anything you like.

Could you tell me where you found this extra 60c service? I can't find it anywhere on their site??

[mrvanx]

Mail2web definatly worth a go. I use the push mail feature but also use it as a backup for my contacts, calender and tasks.

REALLY worth it if you tend to flash new ROMs or HArd Reset quite often.

[padlad]

Yup - web2mail here too. It's free and I generally get my gmail mail pushed to my handset before it gets to my PC. No real complaints.

Also from this site there is http://www.port88.org/ which also free.

The main draw back that I have found from web2mail is that I can not overwrite the reply address to a non-'web2mail' address unfortunately.

I have been using http://www.port88.org/ offering for a while now and it's very good, there is a thread on this here on xda-developers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=273878
I also use the push mail on my Nokia N73 'play phone' which works great as well. There is good documentation for set up (one of which i wrote http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

[MrDSL]

Does anybody have any thoughts on how Push versus POP affects battery life?

I haven't done any testing but when I was just using pop email and checking every 15min then my battery life would maybe go down 10% during my 11hr shift..

Now with push email active I usually go home with around 50% battery life left..Seems to take around 40% more for me. If I used my phone alot it seems that it would be a problem for me..