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FAQ: Webmail Accounts That Give You Real Time Delivery (Push) With BIS

by Ronen Halevy on Jan 15th, 2009 at 7:57 am EST
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Every once in awhile I get asked by a friend why their Gmail account gets email faster than another one of their accounts. I always explain that RIM worked with a few large webmail companies to speed up delivery of emails received through them. The problem was that I never really had a complete list of the webmail services that offer this.

Turns out that RIM has finally provided me with an answer in a compiled list.

From their knowledge base:

Enhanced integration of webmail accounts is available with the following service providers:

  • AOL
    • Near real-time delivery of email messages
    • AOL Mail icon on the BlackBerry smartphone Home screen
  • Yahoo!
    • Near real-time delivery of email messages
    • Yahoo! Mail icon on the BlackBerry smartphone Home screen
  • Gmail
    • Near real-time delivery of email messages
  • Windows Live Hotmail/MSN
    • Near real-time delivery of email messages
    • Premium account is no longer required for BlackBerry Internet Service email account integration
  • Hostopia
    • Near real-time delivery of email messages
  • GoDaddy
    • Near real-time delivery of email messages

BTW: Anybody use Hostopia??? I have never heard of these guys before…

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11 Comments to “FAQ: Webmail Accounts That Give You Real Time Delivery (Push) With BIS”

  1. Posted by: jtsdad
    January 15, 2009 at 8:25 am EST

    Did you guys get my message about Shangmail? They supposedly push email that isnt normally push?

    And what about the resolutions contest winners?

  2. Posted by: DavidB
    January 15, 2009 at 9:00 am EST

    There is more to this than just supporting “imap idle”?

  3. Posted by: Floetry
    January 15, 2009 at 11:33 am EST

    My gmail is terrible compared to my yahoo or BIS account. Any tips for speeding it up?

    • Posted by: Kyle
      January 15, 2009 at 12:03 pm EST

      um just fwd your gmail directly to your BIS account email address. that is real-time. its what i’ve done for years. works perfectly.

      • Posted by: LarryMcJ
        January 15, 2009 at 3:15 pm EST

        But then you lose all the great functionality of Gmail lables, etc. Gmail on my 8330 Verizon is VERY fast.

  4. Posted by: DavidB
    January 15, 2009 at 1:12 pm EST

    Having to forward from one email address to another sorta defeats the purpose of having the gmail address.

    My domain that’s hosted on gmail functions flawlessly.

  5. Posted by: Riv
    January 15, 2009 at 1:43 pm EST

    Gmail works like a charm on mine

    I enabled imap, and disabled pop on my gmail account settings

  6. Posted by: kgr
    January 15, 2009 at 11:00 pm EST

    Hostopia appears provides Webmail services to the likes of your ISP. I have my domain and email hosting with Telus Communication, and their webmail service seems to be from Hostopia. In addition, I get my emails as quick or quicker than my telus.blackberry.net email address (if thats possible!).

    Cheers :)
    Ken

  7. Posted by: royeiror
    January 16, 2009 at 2:29 pm EST

    Hotmail takes a few hours to refresh with my Telcel 8100, and when it syncs all the messages come rushing in, even after being read via the browser