Could push/ActiveSync Gmail be a possibility?

[gottago]

try http://www.funambol.com
It will sync calendar, email and contacts.

[agentmikeyd]

Originally Posted by gottago try http://www.funambol.com It will sync calendar, email and contacts.

i am currently using funambol with scheduleworld for my google calendar - are you using funambol by itself for your calendar?

thanks

[matuscg]

nuevasync is great for syncing google contacts and calendar. No downloads everything works through activesync. Their blog says gmail is coming so for now I just use IMAP for gmail.

[megalewis]

I simply use www.mobipush.com services, works great for emails.

[csbert]

Originally Posted by thefish123 Hi everyone. I am sure I am not the first person to wonder about this. Microsoft’s “push” email technology that works with Exchange Server is entirely HTTP based. Obviously Microsoft wants this to work with only their server platform but couldn’t it be possible to use this with Gmail? I can’t honestly see if being that difficult for the folks at Google to reverse engineer the exact format of the HTTP posts going back and forth between an Exchange server and a WM device. On top of this Gmail has Contacts and Calendar as well. If I could sync my WM device with Gmail I wouldn’t need Exchange anymore. I could even use Google Apps to get my email at my own domain name. I tried setting up mail.google.com and also www.gmail.com as ‘exchange’ servers on my HTC Touch but it didn’t work :-( The Fish.

First of all, you don't need MS Push because Google does have a mail push mechanism in place. It is called IMAP Idle. You can read it from here: http://www.isode.com/whitepapers/imap-idle.html. So all you need to do is setting up your IMAP IDLE compatible client to sync with gmail via IMAP instead of POP.

Now, you may also like to forward you mail to mail2web and take advantage of the push mail plus push calendar, contact and task. But you can also use OggSync and keep everything in Google.

[csbert]

Originally Posted by berardi I'm sure Google will implement this with Android

Well, they already have the solution.

[gottago]

Originally Posted by agentmikeyd i am currently using funambol with scheduleworld for my google calendar - are you using funambol by itself for your calendar? thanks

Actually I am only using/testing funambol on my gmail. I don't use a calendar as of yet, too little time to test on funambol. I do know that contacts synch via funambol does work. I guess you are calling me to task;-)

[thefish123]

I know there are various ways using combinations of third party software and/or services and so forth of syncing email one way, calendar another, etc, etc. But imagine being able to sync EVERYTHING in Google Apps with their counterparts on your Windows Mobile device using the NATIVE built-in synchronization mechanism of that device.

If Google is serious about killing Exchange in the SMB market place they will implement this.

Currently I still sync my Vogue with my Exchange server even though I also use Google Apps.

The Fish

[margosmark]

there is always this
http://www.codeplex.com/ImapPusherService

works well for me

[thefish123]

OK, little brag moment there but!!! Have a look at this screen shot. I am not 100% sure when Google added this but this is EXACTLY what I was hoping for just over a year ago! Did I call it or what? I can't imagine Gmail/Google Apps being any cooler :-)

The Fish