![]() Works with Gmail or Google Apps (or Exchange, IIRC) Pro: much better and more granular control over notifications.You could set this up to alert you to all of your messages, but my guess is that once you use the service, you'd realize that you really only want alerts for some messages. Pro: Should work reliably, does not require any 3rd party services.ĪwayFind: A paid AwayFind account (pricing information available here: ) will let you get push notifications for messages which match certain.Con: I can't find anything to confirm that you can pay for a Gmail account and get ActiveSync back, so you have to change your email address.Pay Google: A paid "Google Apps" account will allow you to use ActiveSync. Here are the solutions that I am aware of: ![]() Anyway, I don't want that term to become a distraction, I just wanted to make it clear that my working definition of 'push' is "not waiting for Mail.app to check for new messages every X minutes." I'm also not going to get into a debate about whether we "should" or "shouldn't" be "tied to our email" or "overuse quotation marks.") ![]() (For the sake of this discussion I'll assume by 'push' you mean 'near-instant notification of new messages.' IMAP has something called IMAP IDLE which is similar but I don't think iOS supports it, or maybe Gmail doesn't, or both. This is a great question and I hope that it will get a lot of answers.
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