When my iPhone was activated, I was really disappointed to learn that AT&T doesn’t offer their email service with an “email push” similar to Sidekick (tmail) or Wyndtell. An email push is when someone sends you an email to your pager, you will receive it immediately.
iPhone offers you to add any email provider such as Yahoo!, Gmail, .Mac, Exchange (work), etc… They can be checked every 15, 30 or 60 minutes. While that is nice, I still need an email push.
Upon talking to Marvin Miller, who is also a man who has a heart shaped like an apple, he mentioned that Yahoo! provides email push. I went to Yahoo!’s webpage and learned that their technology doesn’t support iPhones; however, when I added a new email account on my iPhone, Yahoo! was on the top of the list.
I went ahead and created my new Yahoo! account, added it to my iPhone and gave it a spin.
Email push worked! I tested it like 20 times already and it worked every time. The downside to owning a Yahoo! email account is that advertisements will get appended to your sent messages (unless they allow you to remove it for a fee).
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hat tip to marvin miller
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Jul 3, 2007Why not set up Gmail account? It’s free and ad-less.
Jul 3, 2007@daveynin: I would use gmail if they have email push like Yahoo!. In the meantime, it’s Yahoo! for me because I want to be able to receive messages immediately.
Jul 3, 2007did anyone try to set up mail2web.com ? it is because it has push email service. i dont know if it works on iPhone.
Jul 3, 2007Yahoo account having problem on my iphone. It kept crash everytime I send any email. I gave up and removed yahoo account. I kept gmail worked fine. At first I removed all and add yahoo and didnt work.. I wondering if you have same experience as i have? Thanks
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9:51 am
Thanks!! I tested and worked. I am glad that Marvin mentioned about it. I was little disappointed about email system at first. Now its solved!!! Thanks!!