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Pseudo-push email via Prowl for iPhone
Authored by: horhey23 on Aug 11, '09 09:08:38AM

While not an actual Push Email solution, I have a fairly instant solution for those who want "casual push" notices on their iPhone: pick up a copy of Prowl for iPhone and install Growl on your Mac and either GrowlMail (which ships in the Growl .dmg) or this more customizable AppleScript, which also requires rules to be set up in Apple Mail.

Once you've set up your choice of Growl alerts and set their notifications to Prowl, you'll get Push notifications for either all your mail in selected accounts (GrowlMail) or mail that matches your Mail rules (the AppleScript/rule method)

In my experience, the Push notifications from Prowl happen quite fast, so if your Apple Mail settings are checking for mail regularly, you'll get pretty quick notifications about new messages.

A Prowl update is in "approval mode" on the App Store which adds even more great features such as redirecting Prowl push alerts to the app of your choice and more.

In addition to mail alerts, you can then go on to set up push notifications for *any* Growl alert, which can be very addicting. And of course, you'll need to keep your home Mac running and not in Sleep mode for this to work.



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