Originally Posted by pwannell

has anyone got this sorted yet, i still get the prompts saying incorrect password. :-( have not had an email since 03/08/10 and its starting to annoy me ALOT that i no longer have push email on my phone that being an internet tablet should have. I have tried installing the modest update found on here to no avail and have deleted then reinstalled the account status on my phone however nothing seems to change, i still get asked about my password. thanks all

Originally Posted by Pigro

EDIT - disregard the below ... it emerged that while I was gettig n"push" instantly through MfE, I am entirely unable to sent mail using it (even after removing NM) so it isn't a viable solution for now.

my NM on Voda UK is still working OK despite various statements from folks on the forum that it is (or soon will be) now exclusive to Orange network, and that their Voda access to NM has ceased to work. I can't see any reason why all accounts on Voda wouldn't be disabled at the same time (I doubt there are that many people using NM in the first place) but who knows?

Assuming that my NM access WILL get disabled eventually, I did a quick test today and set up my gmail under MfE (point it at m.google.com). Once I set "always on" for sync frequency on my peak schedule, I am getting my email via NM and MfE at exactly the same time.

So, if worst comes to worst, MfE seems to be a permanently free way to get push gmail (well, ActiveSync, which is the same thing for practical purposes) which doesn't depend on Nokia and/or your Cellco in order to work.

Given that it

a) cuts out the (sometimes unreliable) Nokia servers
b) exposes any labels you've set up in gmail as separate folders in modest
c) lets you see your ALL sent items (i.. those which were sent from clients OTHER than n900 too)

... I actually think it's better in most respects than NM.

I'm not sure if gmail sync is "supposed" to work in MfE: There is a huge thread here about MfE which suggests it isn't supposed to (but "might" work if you are lucky) - I lost the will to live after reading the first 100+ pages and still none the wiser - so I don't know if this will work for everyone - suck & see!

n.b. On my initial sync, it failed with a server error. I'd elected to sync everything (email, tasks, calander). I removed calander & tasks, and tried again, which went OK. Not sure if that means that tasks/calendar cant be sync'd or if it was just coincidence - but I only really want my emails anyway.

I'm going to leave NM & MfE running side by side in modest for a few days to check that MfE is reliably notifying me of new mail (and can reliably be used to reply etc.). if that goes well, I'll probably ditch NM entirely before they get the chance to ditch me (sort of like hearing you're about to be dumped and finishing with your g/f first!) as it is really an unwanted middle man, only there due to modest's lack of inbuilt IMAP-idle support, and certainly not worth paying for in my case.

Hope this is of some use to others who are looking for an alternative to NM for push gmail :-)