iPhone compatibility? Push Email?

[bangsters]

I have in my hands right now an unlocked iPhone (took me 20mins to follow the instructions from the web) and currently using it with Tmobile. Now to those iPhone/zimbra users, how do you guys setup push email for the iphone? I have roadsync on my p910 so email wasn't a problem, but here, I have to login via http/safari to webmail, and i have to check every so often to see if i have mail. furthermore I have to download the email instead of OTA like the other push email technology.

any suggestions on this? If I can get zimbra to push the emails to the iphone then I might just have found my new phone and put my p910 to rest. btw, this is not my iphone but my sister's phone

thanks

[jholder]

Take this for what you will, but we went to a meeting at Apple, and spoke with several people there. They told us out right that the iPhone does not support IMAP IDLE.

I've seen a lot of bits on the internet about this. Some think it does, and some think it doesn't.

However, I prefer to believe the developers we spoke with.

The iPhone doesn't support PUSH.

Sorry

[bangsters]

isn't that something like a necessity nowadays? and for a smartphone of this caliber the iPhone falls short

oh well....so how do you guys access email with the iphone? is there a way to get a notification when an email comes in or something? or even pop3, as long as it's synced with the zimbra server and outlook/evolution

it's still cheaper than the p1i (p1i will cost me 600, the iphone is 300, so I might still go the iphone route)

[jholder]

I couldn't agree more

So, the issue is, if you use pop3/imap, the most you can get it to poll every 15 minutes.

One workaround is to have the Zimbra server send you a text message with your new message. If you don't have unlimited text messaging this can cause your bill to go up.

For me, I just iZimbra with txt notifications

[jholder]

More information:
IPhone - ZimbraWiki

[bangsters]

uhmm how do i do that? iZimbra? i use the standard zimbra client. Is there a webclient specific for the iphone?

lol: i didn't see your followup message lol...

[jholder]

This is the part of my job iLove:
http://www.zimbra.com/blog/archives/...7/izimbra.html

Yours. . for free. . in 5.0

txt instructions are in the wiki page

[bangsters]

5.0? and when will that be?

[jholder]

Well, you can get Beta 3 now. Beta 4 is held up with some issues.

Our target date is now November, but we want to be sure everything works before we iShip.

[bangsters]

ok i saw the link for the iZimbra...question tho....will that allow me to view my zimbra contac ts and calendars directly in the iPhone? or will i have to login to safari first? like i mean, i can login to iZimbra then view my mail contacts and also my calendar right? but if I go to contacts (from the phone setting in iphone, or view calendar from the main screen) do I see the zimbra contacts as well?