Guest snoopstar Posted June 22, 2006 Report Posted June 22, 2006 Hi all. Today I upgraded my MDA Vario with the new T-Mobile AKU2 ROM. Up until now I had ben using pop email to download emails to my phone from my various email accounts quite happily. Now I have push email available to me I am wondering if there are any benefits to me. I don't have exchange server working at home at the moment (but could do) but am aware of services like mail2web but this appears to just do 1 email address. Basically, how does push email compare to pop on the Vario? Cheers. Snoop.
Guest Tech Posted June 22, 2006 Report Posted June 22, 2006 I believe that emails are sent automatically to the device/your sim in push - like "real time" as with POP you would have to manually retrieve the emails from the device - but dont quote me on this :)
Guest Chiz Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 I believe that emails are sent automatically to the device/your sim in push - like "real time" as with POP you would have to manually retrieve the emails from the device - but dont quote me on this :) Yeah I agree with Tech. Pop is the equivilent of pull e-mail where you have to dial up and request them (sort of). With mail2web they are pushed to your device. Not sure how it works exactly on your phone but I have an M600/Prophet. To get it to work the e-mails would need to go to the mail2web e-mail address. Rather than giving everyone another new e-mail address you could forward existing ones to the mail2web address. One snag is though that if you reply from your device, it is sent with the mail2web address rather than the one someone sent it to. It is free though. Chiz
Guest snoopstar Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 Thanks both for your replies. That's how I thought it worked. I currently use 4 different email addresses for various different things so it looks like staying with pop is better for me then as if I replied via mail2web, it would use that email address. It is what I suspected but thought I better confirm. Thanks again. Snoop.
Guest Chiz Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 so it looks like staying with pop is better for me. There are some other exahange server (like mail2web) providers that charge but would allow you to reply from your current account I belive. Do a serch for mail2web if you wanna read them. Not sure how it would handle 4 addresses tho. Chiz
Guest Confucious Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 If you can set up your own server do so! Push email is great and works a treat. Rather like texting, you can hold real time conversationsit really can change the way you use email. I missed it when I got rid of my blackberry a couple of years back and am really pleased with the way it works on my Universal.
Guest Chiz Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 If you can set up your own server do so! What sort of cost would this be? Any ideas? No problem if not, probably more than I would want to spend. Chiz
Guest Confucious Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 I got the Microsoft Action pack which cost
Guest Chiz Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 I got the Microsoft Action pack which cost
Guest Confucious Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 It depends if you'd use all the other software such as Office etc that comes with it - for me it was well worth while.
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