PushMail is a new iPhone app that gives you push notifications for any email address with forwarding capability. That means I get instant notifications for any email sent to my gmail account, which is awesome.
I just installed it this morning, and I’m loving it! Before, I had the mail app check my email every 15 minutes, which kind of got me push notifications, but up to 15 minutes late. Now within a minute, I always get notified.
Sure, you can get push email through Mobile-Me, but that’s $100 a year. This is a one-time cost of $5, and it works beautifully. I just set it up on my phone, and it’s perfect.
There are basically no privacy concerns here. You setup an account with the app that creates an email @dopushmail.com. No mail is stored on that account. And you don’t have to give your user name or password to your other account to PushMail.
This is how I configured my gmail account:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10957
I recommend this to anyone with an iPhone or iPod touch with OS 3.0.
