If you’re using MobileMe push mail, and you make changes to your mail accounts (any of them, even if you add one), it sometimes goofs up the push. Dunno why; it shouldn’t. But it seems to, and I spent ages trying to diagnose why my MobileMe mail wasn’t pushing properly after I added a Gmail [...]
Well, the email plan worked. To some extent anyway. As it turns out, you can’t have two MobileMe accounts synced to the same phone or push seems to choke. I don’t think it’s supposed to be that way, but the MobileMe launch has been plagued with issues.
Since the email address on my primary MobileMe account [...]
Want to use MobileMe for push but don’t want a me.com address? Want to filter out spam before it hits your iPhone? Read on.
I wrote earlier about trying to find a way to reduce the amount of spam that came to my iPhone through my MobileMe pushed account. MobileMe is lacking in server-side spam filtering, [...]
I’ve done a bit of research, and apparently Apple intends to release some kind of push server in September.
The forum chatter suggests that this server may mimic background operation for selected apps such as AIM, pushing new messages to the program to enable alerts. The specific details are beyond me, but if this could be [...]
Jeremy Pippin is a writer and web consultant living in the New York metropolitan area.