Comments on: Updated: Apple iPhone – Push Mail against GMail

By: Steve Haran

Steve Haran — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:19:57 +0000

Install GrowlMail on the Mac. Install Prowl on the Mac and Iphone.

You then get email growl alerts from the mac being pushed to the iphone.

This simulates push email perfectly!

Steve.

By: Portable Air Conditioners.net

Portable Air Conditioners.net — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:04:45 +0000

I use Gmail on my iphone 3g..and it always worked fine, until all of a sudden it stopped working. It would not update my email and just say “connecting….” and then “cannot connect to imap.google.com”. It was so frustrating! I tried several things, none of which worked. Finally I got a tip from someone online to just go into gmail on my computer and change my password to something more secure. Up until then my password had just been a simple word, but after changing it to something with a number and longer word in it, gmail worked on my phone again. But gosh it was so frustrating when it wasn’t working.

By: dizzy

dizzy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:50:39 +0000

I’m using ymail like Jeremy as it’s free and mobileme isn’t.
I setup filters to only forward email I want to know about on a “push” basis and set it to “read” as to not show up as new mail on my gmail account when going into the general mail app. One thing I don’t understand is how you set the SMTP on yahoo to gmail? I don’t see anyway to do this, but I just change the FROM address before sending to achieve this.

Here are the details of my setup on my blog:
http://whenwillapple.com/saywhy/2008/07/23/my-iphone-gmail-push-work-aroundthanks-ymail/

By: kmcital

kmcital — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:21:47 +0000

Similar to Jeremy’s idea, I have a working configuration with gmail and mobileme. See here:
http://kmcital.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/iphone-20-mobileme-and-push-gmail-working/

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:36:44 +0000

Anyone any idea whats special about yahoo that it can do push? What protocol is it using?

By: Manni

Manni — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:02:33 +0000

Well, how does IMAP solve your problem regarding lack of push-functionality? IMAP does not necessarily mean push. As of today, there is still no push functionality on the iPhone with GMAIL. Only Yahoo works.

By: wnagele

wnagele — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:44:07 +0000

thanks for the idea – but as you can see at my update at the bottom of the post gmail has imap support now. this totally solved my problem.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:08:13 +0000

Push mail to the iPhone.
I have been trying to figure this out for quite sometime as well. And I notice that I am writing this to you about 7 months after your post. I took a rudimentary approach. I use Gmail and decided to setup mail forwarding to a Yahoo! account I created. Since Yahoo! does directly support push to the iPhone I was able to start receiving pushed emails. I set my reply to in my yahoo account to my gmail account and haven’t had an issue since. I’m not a coder so this was the best I could do. I thought I would share. You may not even care at this point as I am sure you have found a proper fix.

By: gpoul’s Out Of Memory Blog » Gmail supports IMAP

gpoul’s Out Of Memory Blog » Gmail supports IMAP — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:29:52 +0000

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By: wnagele

wnagele — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:02:47 +0000

i’ve found a library that intends to bring an api to gmail. it’s last update was in 2004 however. i’ll try to give it a try soon.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgmail