email push

I am comingoff a blackberry and moving to a TREO 600 with Verizon. Is there any way to have my email pushed to me ala my Blackberry without having to leave my laptop on?

[chris]

Snappermail allows you to set auto frequency for downloading email. I haven't used a Blackberry, but I'd venture to say that Snappermail is a helluva lot more feature filled than a Blackberry. I've been using Snappermail for years and it's a great app. To be honest, it should ship with every Treo. It's that good.

[pw7fam]

I agree with Chris the treo 600 with the newest snappermail can be used integrated with your corp's e-mail system. in addition you can setup any number of pop accounts separate from Corp. I use Sprint only downside of persistent push/pull of data connection i.e. e-mail will not allow incoming calls at time of push/pull...with sprint only. Sprint network is good about this by upon a data connection not being used for 15-30 seconds will maintain connection but allow voice calls terminating to device. They have tried to optimize this limitation of present CDMA-1xrt...I'm told they are upgrading network to allow what GSM users enjoy today. I don't find it problematic though... just a little annoying at times. The newest treo does ship with a e-mail app included I have never used it though due to Snapper is the best

GSM will allow simultaneous concurrent data voice I assume that's true for Cigular and ATT although I don't know for sure maybe Chris admin knows.

[TreoRenegade]

Having used SnapperMail for about a year, I concur that it is an excellent app. However, like you, I have hands-on familiarity with (and addiction to) Blackberry push email. Indeed, I purchased the 7100t, but took it back- not ready for prime time; then grabbed the Treo 600.

Once I got the Treo, research led me to the "Chatter" app. Bottom-line: a one-time $25 purchase price yields that Blackberry-style experience. As soon as the mail hits your server, it's pushed to the Treo. And, as you delete from the Treo, that too is mirrored at the server, preventing the duplicate review syndrome.

This is one instance where it pays to read the highly helpful manual (pdf). Home page = http://imchatter.com . I forget how many days you get for the trial. It was so fantastic, I coughed up the dough within 48 hours. Developer is tops, and highly responsive to customers.

I adore it! Two things though: your mail server must be IMAP, and it must relate to the IDLE command. See the forum for Marc/Chatter at mytreo.net >> forums >> Marc/Chatter, which has a list of known OK servers. So far as I can tell, if the server is of the IMAP flavor, it probably does handle the IDLE doohickey.

Happy holidays!

PS. Almost forgot: there is a way that Chatter can also double as a universal instant messenger client. I've not yet investigated this personally, so I'll leave it at just alerting you to the feature's existence.