Fastmail users: What are you using for push to iPhone?

[pinkoos]

One thing I may miss after having switched back to Fastmail from Gmail is my grandfathered activesync I had with Gmail.

One potential workaround I've found and am trying (10 day free trial) is NuevaSync:

https://www.nuevasync.com/

So far it seems to be working nicely but I'm not sure I want to pay for it once the trial is over ($2.50/month or $30/year...no contract, cancel anytime).

Please let me know if you've found a workaround that pushes email from Fastmail to your iPhone.

Thanks.

[michaelb]

Sorry, I don't understand the question. Fastmail works natively and has for years, going back to my first ipod, so a really long time. Just set it up as account? I dont' use push, since that uses up battery life, so I have it fetch instead.

[pinkoos]

michaelb wrote:
Sorry, I don't understand the question. Fastmail works natively and has for years, going back to my first ipod, so a really long time. Just set it up as account? I dont' use push, since that uses up battery life, so I have it fetch instead.

Yes, so fetch has to either be done manually or setup for certain time intervals (the shortest of which is 15 minutes I think).

Push pushes the email to your device as it comes in. I actually got great battery life with push when I was using Gmail, so any affect on battery life with push doesn't apply to my situation.

[michaelb]

but push works fine with Fastmail, no? I have certainly used push over the years and it seems to work (hitting the setting there for just a minute seemed to push new email to my iphone).

[pinkoos]

michaelb wrote:
but push works fine with Fastmail, no? I have certainly used push over the years and it seems to work (hitting the setting there for just a minute seemed to push new email to my iphone).

I think you're confusing terminology: push does not require any user intervention. New emails are pushed to the phone as they come in.

With Fastmail, everytime you open up the Mail app, you are fetching - nothing is getting pushed to your phone.

In terms of IMAP, push must be supported/provided by the email service (which Fastmail does not). Browse through the threads over at http://www.emaildiscussions.com/. Push is one of the most requested features that Fastmail still does not provide (as well as contacts and calendar sync).

[michaelb]

I am pretty sure I know what push is here, but it is possible I am confused. I turned on push. I sent two emails to myself, from a different account. One arrived faster on the iphone then on the mac desktop, the other was faster by about 2 minutes on the desktop. But both arrived within a total span of 4 minutes time from when they were sent. So the fastmail on the iphone is certainly polling for new mail faster than a 15 min setting. This seems consistent with my long term experience using push. Emails on the fastmail account are received within minute of two of when they are sent.

I also have an exchange account on the iPhone, so maybe that is impacting this somehow.

Good luck though, sorry I am not any help.

[pinkoos]

As I mentioned, push is immediate. Not a minute or two.

Fastmail does not offer push email.

[Robert M]

Pinkoos,

While I understand Fastmail doesn't support push, I have to wonder why you'd want to use the feature. Push eats away at the battery. I noticed an increase in battery life after I disabled push wherever possible. While it's convenient to have email and other items sent to the phone automatically, it's also just as easy to manually trigger checks and such. To me, the increase in battery life is worth an easily triggered extra step.

Robert

[pinkoos]

I've been using push with gmail for years and never had a problem with battery life.

Granted, I've not tried fetch because I've never had to so I don't know how much my life would improve.