Push email recommendations?

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

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 ;-)