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Who is having trouble with GPush?

mrXniick said:
Gave up on Gpush...

Pushmail works amazing. Worth the 2.99 over the .99 for gpush
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I so wanted GPush to work, but after having VERY sporadic notifications over the last couple of days I thought I would risk the £1.79 to see if Pushmail was any better.....and it really is! Actually almost instant reliable notification and I really like how it shows you the first part of the message as well.

With the addition of pushed badge count and some other features (look at their twitter page) it looks like it will end up being a winner. I'm going to keep GPush as well for the time being as if they (hopefully) fix the problems soon then it will work well with pushmail to provide a badge count. But its going to take some significant "extra" features to make me switch from Pushmail totally.

Sorry GPush, I really wanted to like you but unfortunately its just one of those things!
 
GPush randomly worked for me last night at about 3am. Waking me from a sleep that took me so long to fall into. I know it's my fault for leaving it on (even though my phone was only on vibrate) but what a terrible time to decide to work. However, it has since stopped working again.

Edit: Also, has anyone had more/less success using a user name and domain name or are most of you just using your user names?
i.e. jimbo3 or jimbo3@gmail.com?
 
speed12 said:
I so wanted GPush to work, but after having VERY sporadic notifications over the last couple of days I thought I would risk the £1.79 to see if Pushmail was any better.....and it really is! Actually almost instant reliable notification and I really like how it shows you the first part of the message as well.

With the addition of pushed badge count and some other features (look at their twitter page) it looks like it will end up being a winner. I'm going to keep GPush as well for the time being as if they (hopefully) fix the problems soon then it will work well with pushmail to provide a badge count. But its going to take some significant "extra" features to make me switch from Pushmail totally.

Sorry GPush, I really wanted to like you but unfortunately its just one of those things!
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For PushMail app, you instruct gmail (for example) to send a copy of the mail to yourusername@dopushmail.com?

How do you do that?

Does PushMail support Hotmail accounts as well?
 
jarjarblinks said:
For PushMail app, you instruct gmail (for example) to send a copy of the mail to yourusername@dopushmail.com?

How do you do that?

Does PushMail support Hotmail accounts as well?
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PushMail supports any email that allows forwarding. So if Hotmail lets you forward to another address, PushMail works.

I switched from Gpush to PushMail yesterday. It works BEAUTIFULLY. I got fed up with Gpush after it not working well the past few days. PushMail is the real deal, folks. Gpush is nice since it has the badge of unread emails, but really, since you are getting notifications of each time you get an email, how many unread you have shouldn't be unknown information. Gpush's catch is that it doesn't work lol. PushMail is now only 2.99 and it has a 4.5 rating. GET IT.
 
Well, PushMail works.

Their interface is different.

PushMail activates upon a forwarded mail to your own user created email address in the PushMail domain. It just "informs" the app on your iPhone of a new incoming.

GPush syncs with google's servers to inform you of a new incoming - hence the reason why you have to key in your gmail username / password. That might be a concern for some.

Hence, GPush allows for badge notifications of unread messages, as it is constantly synced with gmail in real time.

In a way, that is useful too, because you may have 5 unread mails, and you go through 3 of them. Badge notifications will still indicate 2 as unread. Under the FAQ of GPush it advises for the app to be placed on the same screen as mail app to allow for fast response without swapping pages. PushMail, on the other hand, can be thrown to the last page after installation without further occurrence.
 
funnyboy88 said:
PushMail supports any email that allows forwarding. So if Hotmail lets you forward to another address, PushMail works.

I switched from Gpush to PushMail yesterday. It works BEAUTIFULLY. I got fed up with Gpush after it not working well the past few days. PushMail is the real deal, folks. Gpush is nice since it has the badge of unread emails, but really, since you are getting notifications of each time you get an email, how many unread you have shouldn't be unknown information. Gpush's catch is that it doesn't work lol. PushMail is now only 2.99 and it has a 4.5 rating. GET IT.
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Hotmail only lets you forward to certain domains. Basically it won't let you forward to a gmail adress or anything like that. It may allow forwarding to a Pushmail domain, I'm not sure.
 
Yeah, GPush isn't working properly for me, either. I don't know, somehow I'm doubting it'll ever work as advertised.
 
muledogus said:
Hotmail only lets you forward to certain domains. Basically it won't let you forward to a gmail adress or anything like that. It may allow forwarding to a Pushmail domain, I'm not sure.
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This is what appears under the Hotmail Options page for mail forwarding:

Forwarding
You can forward your mail to one other e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, live.com, or is part of Windows Live Custom Domains.
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I posted this in another thread but its fits in this topic also. If you guys want TRUE push email for Gmail and/or AOL try nuevasync.com. Its 25.00 a year but I think its worth it. Im using it for AOL and my mail gets pushed in 5 secs. They offer a 3 day trial so you can test it yourself.
 
Hopefully, I'm not getting ahead of myself but I just started receiving notifications. Looks like it's functioning. Hopefully the bugs are worked out now. Fingers crossed....
 
I searched twitter for "gpush", and it seems like a lot of people are saying it's working at the moment.

I really hope they finally figured this out, as I want to buy this app.
 
Yup, mines working really well now. Notifications within seconds of getting an email through and the badge is updating quickly as well.

Having said that I will probably still stick with Pushmail for the moment only because I have realised the very useful feature of being able to set my work e-mail out of office to auto forward on to the @dopushmail address to alert me to any emails I've been sent whilst out of office. I then know I need to check our web email access rather than doing it sporadically when out of office just in case. Very handy!

Still keeping Gpush for badges though at the moment and I've paid for both so we'll see what happens with both of them!
 
speed12 said:
Yup, mines working really well now. Notifications within seconds of getting an email through and the badge is updating quickly as well.

Having said that I will probably still stick with Pushmail for the moment only because I have realised the very useful feature of being able to set my work e-mail out of office to auto forward on to the @dopushmail address to alert me to any emails I've been sent whilst out of office. I then know I need to check our web email access rather than doing it sporadically when out of office just in case. Very handy!

Still keeping Gpush for badges though at the moment and I've paid for both so we'll see what happens with both of them!
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Speed12 - Since you have both, just wanted to ask a question, if you wouldn't mind.

For either of these apps, are the notifications only the latest email you received? Say I receive 5 emails, will the blurb/notifications on my lock screen indicate that I have 5 new emails, with a little description of each? Or will it only show the blurb/notification for the most recent email? And then I would have to look at the badge number to figure out how many new emails I actually have?
 
tbm248 said:
Speed12 - Since you have both, just wanted to ask a question, if you wouldn't mind.

For either of these apps, are the notifications only the latest email you received? Say I receive 5 emails, will the blurb/notifications on my lock screen indicate that I have 5 new emails, with a little description of each? Or will it only show the blurb/notification for the most recent email? And then I would have to look at the badge number to figure out how many new emails I actually have?
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gpush has badge numbers. pushmail currently does not. apparently pushmail developers are working on badges but i fail to see how they will do this since all they do is receive forwards of your emails. theres no way they can tell what emails have/haven't been read yet.

pushmail currently is 1000x more reliable than gpush. but unfortunately without badge numbers, i have no idea how many emails i haven't read yet because each push notification seems to displace the last one you received. for example while i'm sleeping, i may have gotten 7-8 emails during the night. but when i check my phone in the morning, i will only see a push notification for the very last email. pretty lame. its even worse if the last thing i received was an SMS text. then i will only see the sms notification on screen with no indication that i ever received a push notification!!!
 
tbm248 said:
For either of these apps, are the notifications only the latest email you received? Say I receive 5 emails, will the blurb/notifications on my lock screen indicate that I have 5 new emails, with a little description of each? Or will it only show the blurb/notification for the most recent email? And then I would have to look at the badge number to figure out how many new emails I actually have?
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For PushMail:
It appears that the notification is only for the most recent email — i.e., once you either press "OK" or slide to unlock, prior notifications are not queued/displayed.

For GPush:
Well, unfortunately, I couldn't test because the app has once again stopped pushing notifications to me as of 6:20 PM CST. Can anyone else chime in here?
 
tbm248 said:
For either of these apps, are the notifications only the latest email you received? Say I receive 5 emails, will the blurb/notifications on my lock screen indicate that I have 5 new emails, with a little description of each? Or will it only show the blurb/notification for the most recent email? And then I would have to look at the badge number to figure out how many new emails I actually have?
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For GPush, the notification bubble will only display the most recent email. So if you had one notification and then got another email, your lock screen will only show the description of the new email. However, the GPush app will show a "2" on the badge.
 
I have both apps.

PushMail alerts only the most recent mail, or any incoming for that matter. Once you have slid the unlock screen the matter is laid to rest thereafter.

Gpush has the advantage of badge icons that displays the number of unread mail. The badge icons update in real time once you have opened the mail from gmail.

How I use mine now is I disable alerts from Gpush and place it on the main screen above mail app. The badge notifications is useful to me as I read certain mails at times and leave some mails for later. It reminds me that there are still unread.

Alerts are left to PushMail, which is thrown to the last screen as it has no badges. However it displays a notification screen with a preview of the mail, which is useful so I know who the sender is and what the subject title is. Gpush does not have this utility.

I spend a total of $3.99 to have the best of both worlds - badge notifications, alerts and preview. But it seems like I'm really using one app sice PushMail is install-and-forget.
 
GPush has been working really well for me the past 12 hours or so. Hopefully it continues. Last night I was on facebook on my computer and I was getting wall post notification emails popping up on my phone before facebook even updated to show me the posts. I just tested it again and it took probably about 15-20 seconds to get an email.

Edit: Though, I did get an email in the middle of the night and looked over to see the notification. I didn't unlock the screen or anything but this morning when I did the notification was gone. That might be Apples problem and not GPush's, I'm not sure.
 
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