I was asking why AS would be bad on the battery, but if you want to go there:
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I dont think you can say that Excahnge/AS has been more stable, reliable or more powerful than a flexmail/fastmail solution.
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Sure I can! With my Exchange server, I have yet to not receive an email nearly simultaneously on my phone as in my pc inbox. With FM, I constantly lost connectivity, and on several occasions, FM completely destroyed my entire inbox/account on the server!
YMMV...
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How much is activesync push running ya per month?
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Nothing. It's part of Exchange 2k3 SP2 that I'm running on one of my servers.
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As far as the power issue, I have rules to sync mail into 7 different folders. My general email and friends folder automaticallly notify me while my possible spam and list emails go into their folders yet don't notify me. The only reason why Exchange push would be better is the abilty to sync calendar and contacts, otherwise flexmail is the best email solution.
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My today screen shows how many new messages are waiting. I can safely close all applications with any of the task managers without worrying about my email connection being lost. When I change a contact phone number or create an appointment on my phone, they are reflected on any/every computer that I use. Can FM do any of those?
Oh, and PO has never killed an account deleting years worth of messages!
The one thing that FM does have over PO is it's folder handling.
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Originally Posted by VW
As far as battery drain, I notice they all drain about the same. Statistically speaking I think imap idle has less overhead ive read, but whether that means better battery life I couldnt tell subjectively
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In my experience, FM showed the absolute worst battery drain. Ironically enough, last time I tried FM (about a month or two ago), it ran my battery down about twice as fast as when I had the same three accounts doing scheduled send/receive every 15 minutes!
Once again, YMMV.