Push for Google Mail Accounts?

If you are like me, then you have a Gmail account. Heck, if you are REALLY like me, then you have several! I use Gmail and Google apps, for several of my email accounts and domains. I have the more important of these on my iPad and my iPhone. It has often been annoying to me that I could not set my Gmail accounts to push. Instead the best I could do was to have it check every 15 minutes. Especially since a lot of my emails are time sensitive. A good example would be a power supply failure alert on a rack mount server across town. But now there is a way to solve this! And no, it does not require any money or Apps.


It is all, as they say.. in the setup! For that reason, I decided to walk you thru setting up your push gmail account. To do this, I have taken some screenshots on my iPad.

First thing you need to do is go to your Settings App, then go to Mail, Contacts and Calendars. Once there, remove you current gmail account. Afterward, click on add new account. Once you do, this windows will pop up.





Click on Microsoft Exchange. Yes, I know this is Gmail, but just trust me!






In the next window, put your email address and password in the fields supplied. Leave the Domain field blank. When you click on next, it will try to verify for a minute. Then this next window will pop up.




In the server field, put m.google.com and click on next.





Then tell it what all you want to sync and you are good to go!! You will have your gmail account set up to work just like an exchange account, along with true Push for gmail!

Btw, this entire post was done on an iPad 2. All photo editing was done by Adobe Photoshop Express, which is free in the app store.