No Push Email on N8s Worldwide? Prove me wrong.

Mine never worked. Gmail, Hotmail, nor Me.com ever came through without manually refreshing. Didn't make it two weeks before I went back to the iPhone 4.
 
I wouldn't have made it 1 day if I didn't figure out how to set up my mail mostly the way I was used to on my N97mini. Was ready to go back to the mini pretty quick for a bit there...
 
The Nokia Messaging service is a true push service using Intellisync. With the exception of some hiccups when it was very early beta and then again with the data center move the service has been very reliable for me on the E71, E72, E75, N900 and N97 mini. What is silly is reports from users like THE_TRUTH34 who puts his SIM in the E72 if he wants reliable email and in the N8 if he wants a great cam because he gets a different experience using the same NM service on the N8.
 
Exactly. Nothing's improved - some phones are ok with the email, others pathetic. I gave up several years ago and went with Profimail. It's a better email program to begin with imo vs the Nokia version even when it is working.
 
Nokia messaging on my e72 was flawless and was instant, on the n8 its always delayed, i cant imagine why they cant get this right. I am not a huge email guy so for me it isnt a huge issue, but for everyone that needs it, its embarrasing
 
Email is the only thing on the phone I don't like because it's vastly inferior to my previous Sony Ericsson C905. IMAP on that one worked perfectly, but the N8 just doesn't come close.
 
Well. That sounds promising. I hope it works out the way people in the USA want it to work out. Sounds a lot like MobileMe integration with the iPhone...which would be great.
 
I been playing around with it this morning, and it's really slow. I get huge Word and Excel files from clients, and getting it to update the thumbnails so I can look at a page takes a long time sometimes. Sometimes it's quick.

A client sent me a monstrous 10 column 250 row table (stock equity table), and the Mobile Documents tried splitting it into 7 thumbnails, but it's stuck at "fetching", and I can't view it. Seems their server can't handle it. Not surprising in some ways, as that spreadsheet is crazy big.

There is no MANUAL sync to your email account, the only option is to set it to 5 mins. Stupid or what?

So far, I'm not impressed. Even tried to go to www.mobiledocuments.com website to reset my username, and it won't allow it. I now sent email to their support.

It is BETA, and boy can I ever tell. I wish someone would develop a service for documents that's as fast as Opera Mini is at delivering compressed HTML/graphical content. Sure there is more processing dealing with Word/Excel/PDF's, but right now, just delivering the thumbnails is really slow. Never mind zooming into the page, which is slow also. And this is through my fast WiFi at home.
 
Woah, thought i was alone on this. I had both my N8 and X10 sync my LiveMail and Gmail, and the N8 always seemed to recieve my mail 45mins to an hour later than my X10, and i had it set to "Soonest" funny thing is my 5800xm didnt delay like this, so it does seem as though the app "broke" when nokia ported it to the N8.
 
With the soonest setting, it means you're set up using nokia messaging servers and it sucks. Not using Nokia messaging servers and connecting directly with IMAP is more reliable in my opinion, I have it set at 15mins sync and is generally sufficient for me.
 
Okay, this is what I'm driving at. When I started this thread, this is what I'd experienced. I followed the normal procedure for setting up email on my E75. Follow the prompts, Accept the Terms (which means I subscribed to Nokia Messaging, an excellent service which plays middleman between an IMAP server and a Nokia mobile), enjoy bliss. It simply worked. Do the same on the N8, no Push.

BTW, I appreciate that many of you have implemented workarounds which eventually got you Almost-Push, and I'm happy that you're happy. But that's not what this thread's about. Many of us want what Blackberry and iPhone deliver without drama. Email arrives in an IMAP server, phone beeps, look at screen, read email. All in rapid succession. There's PUSH and there's FETCH. We're talking about PUSH here. FETCH lots, FETCH often, FETCH really really fast with Look!! No Hands, Ma!... still not PUSH.

I appreciate the advice of the guy with the $20/mo solution and I know all about MfE, where you can't send email or replies, only read incoming email. No Thanks.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to be furiously disappointed with the N8 over this issue alone. Thanks for wading in, all of you. I appreciate the time people take in these discussions. I learn so much, Ipay nothing for it. Thanks again.
 
The only email client in NokiaLabs is "MOBILE DOCUMENTS" which is very nice to look at but problematic to install (must remove mail accounts from native mail app first, I think) and error messages are not revealing. But if you get a successful install (I did, finally) you end up with a very interessting email client with a lot of interesting features and a good interface to Google Apps, which I appreciated a lot. BUT NO PUSH. Bu-bye.
 
Not true. My E51 and my E75, setup according to Nokia's instructions, using Nokia Messaging, delivered lightning-fast Push Email from my GMail account. I am very demanding and it satisfied me. The whole purpose of this thread is to rant about the disappearance of such a good solution.

Sorry you had a different experience.
 
Is this off-topic? It is, if MOBILE DOCUMENTS doesn't Push email. Please let us know if it does. I installed it and all I could get it to do was fetch every 5 mins. MOBILE DOCUMENTS claims they do Push Email but I'm not convinced. Love the Google Apps integration.
 
Nonsense. Nokia Messaging was an excellent Push Email delivery intervenor. Blackberry has one, iPhone has one, Nokia had a superior one, IMHO. Using a mobile device to connect directly to an IMAP server and expecting the IDLE command to work reliably is insane.

Go Push or Go Home. 15 mins is NOT enough for me.
 
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