MailShadow for Gmail Makes Gmail Look Like Exchange

wait - there's free push mail with windows live services?! I was just all over the live.com site and can't find anything in their materials on push email. Is is through hotmail? Do I need to set up a hotmail account?

Hi Jason -

You'll need a live.com email or a hotmail.com email. You'll also need Windows Live set up on your device. If it wasn't pre-installed, you can get the "lite" version which still does push email. more info here:

http://www.wmexperts.com/articles/windows_live_lite_now_availabl.html

This service looks promising. One reason our company went with AppRiver hosted exchange was really because of the need to stay with full Outlook support, but we waned to use Google Apps.

Also, iPhone 2.0 software support exchange activesync. If this product supports EAS, you could essentially use Google apps as if it were hosted exchange, syncing calendar, contacts, and email through the exchange support on iPhone and WM.

Not having access to a real exchange server I set up z-push (http://z-push.sf.net) on my linux box:
* is server based (no 3rd party sync apps on my pda!)
* works with gmail / any imap with Imap idle
* FREE!
* calendar/contacts with zarafa server (not free)
* under GPL
* works with every activesync enabled phone (ie Nokia E-Series, iPhone 2.0 ?)
- need access to a linux box
- need rudimentary linux command line skills

I tried hotmail/live before that. The big downside is that it simply drops mail without bouncing them. So forwarding my primary email account to my hotmail account did not work IRL eventhough I really gave it a looong try (senderID, ...) Troubleshooting is close to impossible - canned responses and ignorance.