which email program for iphone?

[jonnyboy]

Hi all

Got my wife a 3gs iphone for Xmas, she loves it.
Need to set her up with own email address - looking for push email to the phone (just like my blackberry) which can be used with windows mail on her laptop (ie duplicate messages on server - get it on the phone and on the pc later).

Reading between the lines there seems to be a big sway to gmail but then info I have found is that its not really push, the phone searches for mail within the time parameters set by the user. Would infinitely prefer it go go to phone, not rely on phone to "look".

All you more-techy-than-me chaps out there, what would you recommend? I need to set up today really.

Cheers


John

 

[mw_C32]

As you have discovered, I use Gmail. It checks for mail every half hour and suits me fine.

M.

 

[Honey Bear]

Nope! GMail supports push, just not the way Apple wanted them to.

Gmails syncs via the microsoft exchange server option.

Article here

Instructions here

 

[jonnyboy]

Am i right in saying though that gmail is web-based, not useable in windows mail /outlook and the likes ?

 

[Deker]

You can set up outlook to use gmail as it mail server, have a look here for the setup : Outlook 2007 - Gmail Help

EDIT: that was for Outlook 2007 for 2003 look here http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13278 if you're using any other version there are some links on the right hand side for setting them up.

 

[whizzkid11]

I use mBox mail which also does hotmail/live mail as well... PUSH works fine too!

 

[whitenemesis]

Hotmail works fine with the iPhone, syncs easily

 

[crockers]

What about mobile.me? Is that any good?

 

[whitenemesis]

I use DropBox

 

[jonnyboy]

I use DropBox

That actually looks quite good. How secure can a freebie like that really be ? ie where do they make money to cover overheads? If I understand the video correctly its effectively like online storage which 2-way update-syncs with all your devices? Would work superbly for my business with four different pc's in differing locations.

I don't know how it relates to email thought whitenem?

 

[mw_C32]

Nope! GMail supports push, just not the way Apple wanted them to.

Gmails syncs via the microsoft exchange server option.

Article here

Instructions here

Never knew it could do that so I have set it up on my iphone and it does'nt work....

Then I found out why?! Gmail Push Problem

.

As for dropbox it's brilliant even just for pc and laptops....

M.

 

[whitenemesis]

That actually looks quite good. How secure can a freebie like that really be ? ie where do they make money to cover overheads? If I understand the video correctly its effectively like online storage which 2-way update-syncs with all your devices? Would work superbly for my business with four different pc's in differing locations.

I don't know how it relates to email thought whitenem?

Only free up to 2gb above that monthly charges come in.

I have 3 devices sync'd, laptop, pc and iPhone. Change a file on any one and within 20sec changes are sync'd across the others. Took about 30sec to upload and sync a 10mb assortment of files. I like the undo feature where yo can recover deleted files.

Ah! email, yes, well, cough..

I just use hotmail.....

 

[Tan]

I tried to set up my google apps email via the above method this morning and it still does not work, I thought that the update from google implied that the sync should work by pull, just not by push? Or is it that I need different settings if using google apps?

Thanks

Tan

 

[davidgibson999]

as stated in post 11 there is a problem with Gmail servers which is affecting the Push service at the moment.
I just signed up today with nuevasync which reliably syncs your gmail contacts, calendar and pushes your emails to your iphone. free trial for 5 days, then $25 per annum.
working well so far.

 

[Tan]

I enabled Google Sync and all is working fine now.

 

[jonnyboy]

so just to reiterate, push works with hotmail?

 

[Honey Bear]

To my knowledge you may need a third party app for hotmail with push.

As I said gamil works fine for me. Sure it has some issues, once in a blue moon. But it is free so I'm not complaining.

 

[whitenemesis]

so just to reiterate, push works with hotmail?

To my knowledge you may need a third party app for hotmail with push.

As I said gamil works fine for me. Sure it has some issues, once in a blue moon. But it is free so I'm not complaining.

I don't have push Hotmail. The iPhone pulls new mail at user settable intervals.

 

[whizzkid11]

so just to reiterate, push works with hotmail?

Yes - I use mBox mail (£5.99 app) push works a treat, get hotmail emails straight to my iphone.

Additionally there is IM+ which gives IM (inc MSN) with PUSH. SO any IM messages can be received with push.

 

[jonnyboy]

Thanks to all for this.

Solved. I realised that I could add Mrs JB an email address to my company domain-based email, therefore she can get it on the iphone, and Windows Mail.

Seemples -like me