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I'm set up with Gmail push via Nokia Messaging. Works OK in general - the push is much more convenient than polling if you use email heavily, and the killer benefit is scheduling times when it DOESN'T sync - so you don't get woken up overnight with email arrival alerts, but they kick in again just after your n900's alarm wakes you (to the sound of "I'm only sleeping " by the Beatles ... lovely, it should be the default alarm IMO).

But there is a definite issue - for me anyway - whereby push seems to stop working at or some time after you leave home wifi coverage and go mobile on GPRS. I have messed around with this and empirically, I think that immediately after leaving wifi. if you do a "send & receive" it seems to kick the push back into life?
 
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Look under settings for email --> updating imap and pop accounts --> update when connected via --> any connection, it works for me...
 
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Originally Posted by Pigro View Post
I'm set up with Gmail push via Nokia Messaging. Works OK in general - the push is much more convenient than polling if you use email heavily, and the killer benefit is scheduling times when it DOESN'T sync - so you don't get woken up overnight with email arrival alerts, but they kick in again just after your n900's alarm wakes you (to the sound of "I'm only sleeping " by the Beatles ... lovely, it should be the default alarm IMO).
That sounds great. If only their sign up page wasn't down for me I could try this out :P
 
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Originally Posted by anandv76 View Post
Look under settings for email --> updating imap and pop accounts --> update when connected via --> any connection, it works for me...
Today it only wants to update when connected via wifi. I tested it by setting it to 10 minute intervals and started with 2G. 15 minutes later it hadn't refreshed. Switched to 3G. Same thing. Switched to wifi and checked the last refresh time and it had actually changed 10 minutes later unlike 2G and 3G.

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whayt I was obliquely suggesting before was that you might try doing a manual "send & receive" after switching to 3G -no guarantees, but it might kick the polling into life again if its root cause is anything similar to the problem I was describing above. Caveat - I haven't tried this often emnough to satisfy myself that it's anythng more than coincidence that the manual intervention restarts push, so don't moan if/when it does no good :-)
 

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I just checked out the Nokia messaging service and it looks like it's not a free service? No thanks :/
 
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Okay, apparently I missed the fact that you can just set up a Gmail account without using IMAP through the New Account Wizard. I redid my account and using Wifi with a 5 minute interval it alerted me of a new email. Testing it on 2G and 3G now. Hopefully it actually works now.
 
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Originally Posted by kbeeveer46 View Post
I just checked out the Nokia messaging service and it looks like it's not a free service? No thanks :/
it's currently free in many terrtories (though not guaranteed to remain so indefinitely) - some places, I think it is chargeable, but if it's free (as it is in UK) it's useful for tohse who want/neeed push rather than polling.
 
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Originally Posted by Pigro View Post
whayt I was obliquely suggesting before was that you might try doing a manual "send & receive" after switching to 3G -no guarantees, but it might kick the polling into life again if its root cause is anything similar to the problem I was describing above. Caveat - I haven't tried this often emnough to satisfy myself that it's anythng more than coincidence that the manual intervention restarts push, so don't moan if/when it does no good :-)
I think you are right. I did a lot of testing and I think you have to click on send and receive every time you switch networks to kickstart it or else it doesn't retrieve your email. I guess it's nice to know how to fix it if it acts up but this is definitely an annoying bug.

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Mine works over IMAP only if I have it set to 5 minute intervals. Otherwise it won't update on 3G, even if updating manually.
 
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