Why not use push email?

[lgmayka]

Originally Posted by psycho_maniac

make sure you have your email setup for IMAP and that IMAP is enabled on your gmail account.

Yes, I did that, and it kind-of worked, but acted very buggy. The root problem, I think, is that IMAP wants to synchronize the header of every email message in the account; but Gmail keeps all email forever. Gmail's model is really just incompatible with all existing software.

Gmail provides a Java application for cell phones, but it's laughably brain-damaged. (It's meant for dumb phones, not Windows Mobile.)

As you can probably tell from the tone of this post, I have reluctantly decided to go back to my MSN account for email, even though it has its own problems. (MSN recently plunged me into an 18-hour email outage, which was the reason I switched to Gmail temporarily.)

I could live with a stand-alone Gmail application on Windows Mobile, but it would have to be native rather than Java and full-featured rather than brain-damaged.