iOS push mail possible?

[Brad]

office365? ?3.90 a month.

[egparadigm]

Ha, ha! I guess I was thinking of something free!

If I understand correctly, using outlook.com would mean signing up for outlook/hotmail/livemail and importing/forwarding my emails. Is there any kind of service where you can send emails from your actual server, say outlook.com, and they would be delivered to the addressee with my actual site email address stamped on it?

[Brad]

I long ago accepted that decent email was an annual expense! I have a friend who hosts me a website and exchange. Flawless push notifications for everything. Doing it on the cheap = poor system. If you eventually find a free way to do what you want then I'm all ears though!

[egparadigm]

Well, until I got an iPad I didn't know I didn't have push, which is really the only reason for annoyance.

[egparadigm]

Looks like what I was talking about above may be a possibility. You can add non-google email addresses to gmail. I'm going to look at migrating my emails from 1and1 servers to gmail tomorrow.

If anyone wants to warn me off the idea, now's your chance!

EDIT: Thinking about it – it's an insane solution to a slight problem... I'll see if I can live with scheduled mailchecks.

[EvilBoris]

Found this workaround

Go to Gmail web interface, then to Settings -> Forward Account and add your iCloud email to forward all your emails to. I also chose to mark emails forwarded to read, since I don't use the web interface much.

Setup Gmail on your iPhone like you normally would (skip if it's already on there). But under Settings, do not have it sync emails.

Setup your iCloud account to send using your Gmail address.

Setting -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar -> iCloud -> Account -> Advanced Mail -> outgoing mail server -> TURN iCloud SMTP server OFF and turn other SMTP servers on, choosing your smtp.gmail.com settings associated to the appropriate gmail account. HIT DONE.
A few things about this setup... When you go to reply to a message, it will show as if it's sending from your iCloud account, it does not. It is just using the settings you just set that are associated with the iCloud account.

This only works if you don't really use your iCloud account and you only need to reply via one Gmail account. I had several Gmail accounts, but only respond from one, so this is not a big issue for me.

[egparadigm]

Interesting!