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 Free push email too good to be true?
Paul (MVP)
post Apr 21 2006, 11:37
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I was looking around on the web at Exchange Push Email providers today, and I came across mail2web, a company i've had dealings with before in fact.


What I DIDN'T realise was that they are offering, totally free of charge, and Exchange push email account!

They seem to be offering the whole suite of features, such as

- Push Mail
- Anti Virus
- Anti Spam
- Outlook Web Access
- Outlook Mobile Access
- Server ActiveSync
- Email aggregation (not included in base Exchange even!)

all free of charge... to be honest I really don't understand how they can afford to do it... but i'm not
complaining!

If you have a nice new AKU2'd device and you've been itching to give push mail a go... here's your chance.

What do you not get? You don't get RPC-HTTP access so far as I can work out, nor POP / IMAP / SMTP (so you can't use desktop packages, including Outlook), but heck, it's a great deal at the price, particularly as a dedicated mobile device account to supplement your normal mail. It can even pick up other POP3 / IMAP enabled account, including GMail!

Post your experiences below, and if you are looking for a full featured Exchange account, I heartily recommend the great value 4Smartphone offerings.

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travisb
post Apr 21 2006, 11:51
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Paul,

I signed up a couple of weeks ago, and accessing the Web version of Outlook has been pretty good so far. There is a mobile friendly link which also is ok. As soon as I get the AKU2 update for the Vario (hurry up T-Mobile!) I'll give it a go.

I used to use mail2web ages ago to check pop3 accounts I had away from home. Always worked well.

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post Apr 21 2006, 12:42
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Paul, seeing as you've been looking into it...have you seen any push mail systems that will work with IMAP? I run my own server at home and I like it that way. Ideally I'm looking for a service that can take a message from me (e.g. forwarded email, hitting a specific URL etc) that will then tell my phone to do a sync.
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post Apr 21 2006, 14:23
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For anyone intrested...

If you want a work around to Outlook pop access, you can set a rule to forward all inbox mail to your email address at mail2web and then have it pushed to your device while you're out and about smile.gif

Just hit tools > rules and alerts in Outlook and follow the wizard wink.gif

Oh and I've used mail2web for ages for pop3 access while away from home. Never let me down.

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post Apr 21 2006, 18:00
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It looks like they've cancelled the free thing, I can only find pay for service plans, still looks fairly cheap though.
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post Apr 21 2006, 18:27
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it is working on my vario (with imate rom) signed up for the free stuff.

just got to figure out auto sync now...or does it do it itself?? hmmm lets test.


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post Apr 21 2006, 18:29
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QUOTE(minty1978 @ Apr 21 2006, 19:27) *
it is working on my vario (with imate rom) signed up for the free stuff.

just got to figure out auto sync now...or does it do it itself?? hmmm lets test.


it works!! just received my first pushed email within about 15 seconds of sending it.

nice find!!

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post Apr 21 2006, 18:47
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Gonna have a look at this, to be honest i dont mind paying!

i have just finished setting up 4smartphone but it takes ages for the mail to get to there web outlook, but as soon as it gets there its straight to my phone. just needs to get to there servers quicker!

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Paul (MVP)
post Apr 21 2006, 19:55
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I've found 4smartphone perfectly quick... strange...

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post Apr 21 2006, 20:00
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I notice with the mail2web service that you can only reply with your web2mail email address. ie. xxxxxx@mail2web.com. Does anyone know if the 4smartphone solution lets you pick your own reply-to address?

Thanks.
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Paul (MVP)
post Apr 21 2006, 20:16
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Yes, I am using my proper email address as the reply address.

Give the trial a go here, it's free for 14 days...

I went for the Pro option as it has the bigger mailbox (and something else I wanted that I can't remember)...

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post Apr 21 2006, 20:40
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Been using most of the functions except push e-mail on my Orange C600 with AKU2 update for about a month now. Happy with the updating of my contacts and calendar items to the Exchange Host, seems to work perfectly.

The web Based Outlook is basic but perfectly useable. I am really using it as a remote backup of all my phone data.

I received an e-mail last week stating the new Push E-mail support was activated from the company and I tried it one evening via a continuous dial-up account (Virgin.net) as I have no GPRS dataplan set-up (but a heck of a lot of free minutes to use up smile.gif ).

I sent several e-mails during the evening from a web based e-mail account to the Web2Mail e-mail address and even through the slow data connection, I was getting the e-mail within approx. 30 seconds.

I am yet to auto-forward from Web Mail account but I can't see this being a problem.

One thing that should be noted in my past discussions on this forum was the fact that in the Terms and Conditions, Web2Mail can tack an advert as a small amount of text at the bottom of each e-mail sent. I have not had this yet but I would guess it may appear when they need to start paying for this free service.

For a free service, pretty good, now if we can just get free GPRS/3G data..... laugh.gif
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post Apr 21 2006, 20:45
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I've been using it with my SDA and it works great. I love that every 5 mins (I don't have the latest push email update) I can sync all my info and get my email. Works great.

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post Apr 21 2006, 21:44
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Free is free! I enabled it a couple days ago. No problems at all.
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post Apr 22 2006, 09:05
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post Apr 22 2006, 14:18
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Silly Question....but why would I want push email?

I have my phone auto-sync every 15 minutes on two accounts and that is perfectly fine for me. I can manually send/receive if I know it's coming and I need it sooner.

Knowing that every 15 minutes is good enough for me...is there any other reason why I may want it that I dont know of?


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post Apr 22 2006, 16:29
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QUOTE(encece @ Apr 22 2006, 15:18) *
Silly Question....but why would I want push email?

I have my phone auto-sync every 15 minutes on two accounts and that is perfectly fine for me. I can manually send/receive if I know it's coming and I need it sooner.

Knowing that every 15 minutes is good enough for me...is there any other reason why I may want it that I dont know of?


Because it will impress your mates ;-)

I was thinking the same thing, I have been doing a manual download of POP3 e-mail with dial up for years since I had a Ericsson T-39, do I really need to know the instant a message comes in........probably not. Then there is the hassle of either telling people a different e-mail address or replying with the hosted Exchange address when e-mail is forwarded...mmmmmm.

Just of interest 'Encece,' can yuu give me an esimate of how much monthly data you use for your method (this could be like asking how long is a piece of string)? At the moment I use dial up but thinking of getting a GPRS dataplan and downloading my single account, (limiting to 1k per message) once an hour automatically. Thanks.
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post Apr 22 2006, 17:21
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I have no idea. I d/l mail from two accounts all day. (5K each unless I need a full d/l on individual mails). But I also d/l weather, rss feeds, and websurf automatically all day. I have unlimited data, so I never had to track.

But before that was available, I used to have 5MB plan with no problems at all with mail and the ocassional web browsing only.


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Paul (MVP)
post Apr 22 2006, 20:37
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Nick, why would you NOT use push instead of regular polls?

Mail arrives quicker, the overhead should be less (as it won't 'poll' even when you have no new mail)... I don't see any downsides smile.gif

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post Apr 22 2006, 20:48
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Many thanks Encece. The rubbish £4 for 4Mb tariff on Orange may be enough for me then until the network improve things (which I think Orange will do but then I am a optimist).

QUOTE(encece @ Apr 22 2006, 18:21) *
I have no idea. I d/l mail from two accounts all day. (5K each unless I need a full d/l on individual mails). But I also d/l weather, rss feeds, and websurf automatically all day. I have unlimited data, so I never had to track.

But before that was available, I used to have 5MB plan with no problems at all with mail and the ocassional web browsing only.
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