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	mikec	2009-10-25 , 18:48
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Originally Posted by thecursedfly

Personally I don't really understand the difference between Nokia Messaging and Modest... o.o
The first one pushes the email to the device automatically with some kind of always-on connection and the second one retrieves the messages on certain time lapses/on your demand?
Apart from that? any interface differences? Does only the second one permit to save emails while Nokia Messaging is only a viewer without "reply" option?

Please make it a bit clearer if possible, thanks :-)

I currently use a webmail with free pop3/imap, gmx.com, does it automatically support push email or does it have to be some special mail provider?

Hi thecursedfly
I cant comment on the UI as I dont have a N900 :-) but the answer to your webmail question is , no your webmail provider does not provided push email. This is the magic that Nokia Messaging does. It effectively proxies your webmail service and maintains a "permanent connection" to your webmail service, and then pushes mail to your device. Perhaps others in the forum can explain the magic and how it works exactly, but I believe that it might make use of SMS channel to tell your email client that mail has arrived, and then your client pulls it down. I believe that the N900 uses modest as its client for both Mail for exchange and Nokia Messaging. Anyone with a N900 care to confirm?

Mike C

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