G-Mail Exchange Service Reliability?

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Hi all:
I'm a new poster but long time lurker. I've also experienced that same issue, where Google's sync push e-mail does not deliver. What I have noticed is it appears that when the phone disconnects the data service (after being idle for a certain time), that push no longer works, unless you force a sync using Activesync, which re-establishes the data connection.

I'm not sure how Activesync works, if it is supposed to maintain a data connection or not.

What I have done is set my sync schedule in Activesync to sync every 5 minutes. This has been pretty successful for me so far. I know it's not true push e-mail, but better than getting e-mails 30 minutes late.

Hope that helps, and maybe someone will figure out how to get it to be a true push e-mail.

I've been looking and have posted on Google's forums as well.