[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] NighTalon:
Maybe this belongs in a subforum that is not specific to the Raphael, but I couldn't find a good place for it.

Obviously if you can use an Exchange server or forward your e-mail to one, you should have no trouble at all getting Push e-mail on any Windows Mobile 5 or 6 smartphone.

If you use BlackBerry Enterprise with Exchange or with Lotus Notes, Novell, etc. you can download BlackBerry Connect 4.0.0.103 and use that setup for push.

{I found some other helpful threads...}

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=409108

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=372291

THE ISSUE OF PUSHING IMAP TO YOUR FUZE

My university provides Exchange for everyone except undergrads. I am an undergrad. I've looked for various solutions to get push e-mail working with our IMAP (Horde IMP) server working. The default WM client works fine except that it is not push, and checking the server every 5 minutes drains my battery. I use this setup for all of my non-primary e-mail accounts, i.e. Formal Gmail, Informal Gmail, and AOL IMAP, which I generally need only to check on-demand.

My university mail is another story. Often times it is crucial to view a message within minutes of it's having been sent.

I will now list the options that I have found so far:

Blackberry Connect:

I first tried paying for BlackBerry Connect, but soon discovered that once I had setup my school's IMAP, there was no two-way sync between my inbox and my BlackBerry. If I read an e-mail in Thunderbird, Outlook, or Webmail before I read it on my phone, it was still marked as unread on my phone. The reverse, however, worked with some lag. I could synchronize deleted items, but this was sort of a manual thing. This is a known issue, and most of the online documentation discusses Gmail IMAP access. Also,arrival times were inconsistent...between 25 seconds and 10 minutes.

I could get around this by forwarding all my e-mail to a Yahoo Mail account, for which Two-Way Sync is available for Blackberry Internet Service. I'd rather not.

Summary: no two-way sync with most IMAP and Gmail IMAP; I can't read all my e-mail on my phone first.

SEVEN Beta:

After realizing that AT&T's "GetMail" was owned by SEVEN, this option appealed to me substantially. I think they are somehow related to GoodLink from Good Messaging. There have been so many mergers and takekovers, it's rather hard to keep track.

2:30 before messages arrived, but was pushed!

:55 before message marked read on phone was marked read on server, but was pushed!

1:15 before message marked read on server

Of course hitting the "Synchronize Now" button makes these two latter changes instantaneous.

To me this seems like a pretty good solution so far, except that the SEVEN configuration program will only open once after a soft reboot. I'll have to see if the entrails or remnants of BlackBerry Connect are causing this problem: I'll be doing a hard reboot in a few minutes.

Attachments and per message data limitations work even better than the default IMAP client.

Summary: Still in Beta, but pretty good; delays of only a few minutes.

IMAP Pusher Service

I discovered that this option requires running a file every time you start your phone. I haven't tried this one yet, but I'll let you know how it works when I do.

I like how basic and non-invasive this one seems. It runs on the IMAP-idle command, assuming your server supports it. However, the developer claims it is not very secure. (I'm not sure if any of these solutions are...)

eMoze

I haven't tried this one yet, and I'm not sure if I want to.

I seem to remember that it works a lot like Verizon's Wireless Sync in terms of storing everything on their server. I'm not sure if I like that notion. If anyone has used eMoze, please let me know what they thought of it. I may try this one too.

mobiPush

I know little about this except that it was thrown up as a possible answer in another forum. I have since discovered that it is buggy, and support seems to have almost all but disappeared.

Emansio

This one also seems very basic, and while it wouldn't work while BlackBerry Connect was installed, now it works fine. Just make sure your Thunderbird isn't set up to use IMAP-IDLE. Otherwise you will have a "synchronization error."

E-mails, deleted and whatnot, sync up within 30 seconds; as fast as in Thunderbird. The only problem with this solution is that it costs 20 GBP! And its interface is not very pretty. I'll give this one some time to mature.

This seems to be based on its predecessor, VGS Mail. I'm tempted to buy it...we'll see how well SEVEN works for a while....

Hosted Exchange at mail2web

I really just don't want to deal with forwarding. Otherwise, I think this would be a very good "native" solution in that it uses OTA ActiveSync.

Please add suggestions if you can! Perhaps we can turn this into a Sticky or a Wiki somewhere.

Here's a modified chart from another thread:

(M - MobiPush, F - Funambol, S - SEVEN, E - Emoze, W - Mail2web, I - Imappusher, A - EmAnsio after payment)

M F S E W I A
No Add Soft: (Activepush) M - - - W - A
HTML Email: - - S – W I A
Fast Email: m – s – w I A+
Reliable Email: m - S – w - A
No ad/insert in reply email: M – S – W I A
Low Battery Usage: M f S e W - A
Direct send from Gmail acc: M F S E - I A
Customized Sender Name: M F - E W I A