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What’s the best way to “push” gmail to an iPhone?

Like many iPhone users i want my emails from gmail pushed to my phone. Don't know if it's possible but when it is, I'd like to have notifications...

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There is a GPush iPhone app that basically provides push for Gmail. Since it checks GMail via IMAP, some message alerts will be slightly delayed, but it will get the job done.

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Here's the link to GPush tiveriasapps.com/ourapps.php – The Lame Duck Aug 12 at 17:44
There's an app for that! – Dexter Aug 22 at 19:35
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I enabled the Push option, but as said it doesn't enable push. However I use the fetch option, that looks for new emails every 15 minutes, that it's enough for me. If you like a real push option for gmail, you can try Nuevasync, that acts like a Exchange Server proxy, although it costs $25/year. It's free however for calendar and contacts, which is nice.

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re: ianix - "It's free however for calendar and contacts" Google already provides activesync support for Calendar and Contacts. No proxies needed. see google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=default Still, +1 for Nuevasync. – lsc Aug 12 at 18:38
That's right, I forgot about that. I remember Nuevasync did it first than Google, so I started with it and haven't changed. I tried to change to Google Sync, but I had less calendars so I changed back. Don't know if that's still true though. – ianix Aug 12 at 18:50
@shawnchin: Still no support (yet) for push mail with Google's sync service, though. – arathorn Aug 12 at 19:06
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Gmail does not support push on the iPhone. It does for android for some reason;) Yahoo mail does support push on the iPhone.

And yes, this really belongs on superuser

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The one I am using is DoPushMail.com. You sign up for an account with them which gets you a username@dopushmail.com. Then load the PushMail app from the AppStore and configure it with the username and password you registered with.

Then you just configure GMail (or any other email provider) to forward a copy of your email to username@dopushmail.com. The server receives the email, parses out the from, subject etc and generates a push notification to your phone via Apple's servers.

For those worried about security I found this a better solution because you do not need to give DoPushMail.com your email account username or password (which some other services do), and the email you forward to the servers only remains in memory on the server until its processesed (i.e. its never persisted to disk).

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Check out msgpush.com.

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msgpush cannot co-exist with an Exchange or GoogleSync account on your iPhone, so if you're using these features you'll need to try another option. – kpoehls Aug 12 at 19:00
@kpoehls: Right. I see it as a good option if you aren't doing the Exchange/GoogleSync thing, and want a free alternative to Nuevasync. – arathorn Aug 12 at 19:06
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GMail isn't natively supported on the iPhone (I'd imagine it's probably due to some deal Apple made with Yahoo), but you probably wouldn't know it. GMail via IMAP comes to my iPhone FAST - sometimes even quicker than the web client. This actually happened to me this morning. I have it set to fetch every 15 minutes but it sure doesn't appear to work that way.

There is a new App that does it but honestly the native IMAP support is close enough to push that I'd recommend jut sticking with that.

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