Droid has IMAP push email... mostly

The Droid ships with three different email clients: a dedicated GMail client, a dedicated Exchange client, and a general purpose POP/IMAP client.

GMail and Exchange have push email -- i.e. new mail arriving on the server is sent down to the phone within a few seconds.

The general purpose email client does not, even though IMAP-the-protocol has such a feature.

As it turns out, there is a spinoff email client called K9mail which mostly replaces the general purpose client and does do proper IMAP IDLE. It appears to be reliable, and free.

Droid has IMAP push email... mostly

The Droid ships with three different email clients: a dedicated GMail client, a dedicated Exchange client, and a general purpose POP/IMAP client.

GMail and Exchange have push email -- i.e. new mail arriving on the server is sent down to the phone within a few seconds.

The general purpose email client does not, even though IMAP-the-protocol has such a feature.

As it turns out, there is a spinoff email client called K9mail which mostly replaces the general purpose client and does do proper IMAP IDLE. It appears to be reliable, and free.