[...] at The N95 Blog is impressed by all the time he’s saved by implementing push Gmail on his N95 not to mention the ease of use it has added. His tip, if you want to get up and running [...]
“auto-retrieval of e-mails every 5 minutes or so” isn’t push email at all. This is pull email. Push email does not require the client device to “poll” or check with the server for new email. The article claims that their description is push email as it uses the IMAP “idle” feature to maintain a connection to the server so that email notifications can be made. I would argue that this isn’t push email in a traditional sense as it does require this ongoing connection (which is unsuitable for any time based data plan). Also, the data required to maintain an idle connection is relevant as “a few hundred Kilobytes per day” can be considerable depending on your data plan.
I would have to agree with Alan and say that this is not push email at all. In fact your nseries device and most other email compatible phones will do this out of the box with almost any email server POP3 or IMAP. If you want true push email i would suggest using emoze and gmail together or emoze and your desktop pc with POP3 setup.
There is an email widget on widsets that seems to really act as a true push email client. It works for pop3 and Imap..very easy to set up. Only problem is it removes the email from the server with no option that I can see to leave it on the server
[...] at The N95 Blog is impressed by all the time he’s saved by implementing push Gmail on his N95 not to mention the ease of use it has added. His tip, if you want to get up and running [...]
Am I the only person to never hear the phrase “pushing email”?
“auto-retrieval of e-mails every 5 minutes or so” isn’t push email at all. This is pull email. Push email does not require the client device to “poll” or check with the server for new email. The article claims that their description is push email as it uses the IMAP “idle” feature to maintain a connection to the server so that email notifications can be made. I would argue that this isn’t push email in a traditional sense as it does require this ongoing connection (which is unsuitable for any time based data plan). Also, the data required to maintain an idle connection is relevant as “a few hundred Kilobytes per day” can be considerable depending on your data plan.
@Alan
It’s Push-like E-mail setting, as the receiving interval is less than or equal 5 minutes, then calling it Push E-mail is hardly an overstatement.
I would have to agree with Alan and say that this is not push email at all. In fact your nseries device and most other email compatible phones will do this out of the box with almost any email server POP3 or IMAP. If you want true push email i would suggest using emoze and gmail together or emoze and your desktop pc with POP3 setup.
There is an email widget on widsets that seems to really act as a true push email client. It works for pop3 and Imap..very easy to set up. Only problem is it removes the email from the server with no option that I can see to leave it on the server