push email?

[theguy386]

So lately I've been reading a lot about this whole "push" thing and from what I understand it's just something to automatically get your email instantly when you receive it, without having to fetch so often on your email. But then I was reading something about push e-mail only being available with Microsoft Exchange Server. I have a 3G running on 2.2.1 and I notice under the e-mail settings that there is a toggle to switch push on or off. Does this "Push" enable push for all my email accounts or just for the Exchange Server?

[JStraitiff]

your email has to be on a server with push enabled

so no to gmail,aol,etc

[theguy386]

oh wow, that DOES suck. Although I do have a copy of exchange laying around here... might fool around with it a bit and see if I can get my gmail to push... or for that matter my hotmail (instead of izymail).

Anyone use exchange much? Am i just having some weird fantasy about it? lol

[JStraitiff]

dont bother

if your server isnt pushing the email to your client then it will not work

exchange will still use fetch

[theguy386]

damn! well there goes that idea.. well thanks for saving me from the headaches of setting up that server