Pushmail

[Prudent_rabbit]

Hi

Looking for help, I have the O2 PDA (Exec) with Pushmail Capabilities, no matter how many times I read the Brochure I cant make sense of Pushmail, any body on here who has set it up and could walk me through it?

[tsobanis]

Hi

Looking for help, I have the O2 PDA (Exec) with Pushmail Capabilities, no matter how many times I read the Brochure I cant make sense of Pushmail, any body on here who has set it up and could walk me through it?

hi again, just happened to notice this post from you, and thought I would try to give you some level of detail ....

Basically, most devices work on a pull mechanism, ie you start the email program up and you drag down whatever email you have. Some devices allow you to set this to happen periodically, but its a dump tech in the sense that it will connect and intiate a pull even if there is nothing there and doesnt find out after the fact.

Push email works the opposite way, but is dependent on the mail server (in this case Exchange or Blackberry Mail). So, when an email arrives, the mail server 'pushes' the message to your phone via a data connection (eg gprs, edge, 3g etc). There are a lot of other features but that is the basic difference.

So without an exchange server you wont be using the 'push' capability.

Hope that helps a little.