emoze - Free Push Email Software for Your Smartphone

[Kris Kumar]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.emoze.com/en/what.is.emoze.html' target='_blank'>http://www.emoze.com/en/what.is.emoze.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"A real revolution is about setting new standards and making them accessible to all. Every now and then a new mobile email solution appears on the market, but none of the solutions available today were able to become a real commodity for end-users. emoze is the realization of the mobile office vision, FREE and accessible for all mobile users around the globe. ... With emoze everyone can have the comfort of getting their e-mails and ‘Outlook®’ data wirelessly onto their mobile device. Thanks to emoze end-users can now be available 24/7, FREE of charge."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-mar2007-emoze.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />Everyone wants push email support, but not everyone has access to a hosted Exchange server. This is where emoze steps in. Emoze, is a free email push service that supports Microsoft Exchange, Novell Groupwise, Lotus Domino, POP3, Yahoo Mail and Gmail. Not only does this product support a wide variety of email platforms and mobile devices, it also claims to be one of the fastest push email system. The company that makes emoze is so confident of its product that it is <a href="http://www.ctiashowdown.com/">challenging BlackBerry</a> at the CTIA Wireless trade show, to see who can push emails, contacts &amp; calendar quickly and easily. In case you want to understand how it works, check out <a href="http://www.emoze.com/en/HowWorks.html">this Web page.</a> The FREE download of emoze is available over <a href="http://www.emoze.com/en/download/Default.aspx">here.</a> We would like to hear from our readers who have used this product or plan to use it.

[rperalta]

I was using this a lot. However, I had two issues that I don't think they haven't fixed yet, at least according to the version info on emoze.com.

Issues (Samsung Blackjack and Treo 750):
1. Battery - it really drains your battery faster that any other push software. Somebody said to change the email settings to check every 5 minutes and it should improve the battery. Why call it Push Email if you're going to do this.

2. Re-curring appointments on Exchange 2003. It doesn't show any re-curring appointments, only one-time appointments you will get.

Too bad, it would have been a nice program over my Express Mail (Cingular).


Regards,
Robert

[rickmahn]

I've tried it twice in the last 3 months. It does work as a push mail solution, but as mentioned in other posts, it is a HUGE battery drain. Second, when trying to use it in a secured, corporate, fire-walled, proxied environment, there are not enough options or feedback on configuring the PC based component of the software. It seems to find the server on the internet, but can't log into it.

Instead, I'll keep my Mail2Web (http://www.mail2web.com/) free hosted Exchange account that uses Microsoft's standard push-mail solution. Simply works, and doesn't hinder battery life in push-mode.

[damonb10]

This looks very interesting to me since our company usese Lotus Notes. Currently I only synchronize with my Notes data when "docked". I have to use a 3rd party program to connect the Notes data to my smartphone. I'm wondering if this would work the same (since it's free) and I could set it up to only synchronize when I'm connected to my work PC. It seems like it could be possible.

I'm looking at this type of method due to not wanting to buy a data package and my company's IT dept gets paranoid about running stuff on there servers. Of course I could set this up to run on my own work computer.

Any comments??

[frenzy]

Well I downloaded it and it keeps asking me to use outlook or change my default email client... my default email client is lotus notes.. this software is POS :evil:

[bobmay]

I used it for a short while. It worked fine but killed my battery very quickly. It seemed like it was in constant communication. My Q was almost too hot to handle.

[Kris Kumar]

Hoping that the developer will fix this battery drain issue soon. Sounds like a bummer.

[cortez]

i decided to try this after our company turned off ActiveSync push access in favor of crack-berries. i installed it and and kept getting an "initialization error (Error 11)" message. i submitted a support request 3 days ago and still no word. and you guys are right about battery draining...it will suck the life out of your battery. this looked so promising...

i'd use Verizon's WirelessSync tool, but for some reason, everytime i try to send email, it gets hung in my Outbox. needless to say, Verizon's support is worthless on this matter.

my other option was to have my corp email forwarded to another account, but that feature was also disabled. any suggestions?

i refuse to go the crack-berry route!

[Mike Temporale]

There are a couple other free push email clients out there. If this one is giving you problems, you might want to try others. Is the good client free? I know they have a full service app that costs $$ but I thought they also offered a free version. Regardless there are a couple other choices. I would try them all until you find one that works for you and costs the right amount. :D

[cortez]

thanks for the suggestions... i'll google around to see what i can find.

[cortez]

out of desperation (and to be fair to emoze), i decided to hard reset my device and install emoze as my first application, and so far things are working ok. not really the kind of push i was hoping for, but, i can at least send and receive email, update my calendar and manage my contacts. that's the basic functionality i need for now... my only remaining concern is the battery drain issue. :D

EDIT: ok, what's with this tag line in my emails??? i guess this is what i get for using free service, brother!

[Kris Kumar]

EDIT: ok, what's with this tag line in my emails??? i guess this is what i get for using free service, brother!

What does it say? :)

[cortez]

....this is what it says:

I use emoze as my mobile email service...
Go to http://www.emoze.com and download it for free.

this doesn't look good with my corporate signature... if it i can't remove it, i'll have to abandon emoze (again).. :roll:

[Kris Kumar]

That is a chatty signature. I can understand a free service trying to advertise and promote itself, but it should be shorter; little less verbose.

[cortez]

yep... what a tradeoff! :roll:

fyi, for those that encounter the dreaded "Initialization Error (Error 11)", emoze support said this occurs when you exceed the number of allowed email accounts on your device. i didn't know there was a limit; I have 6 accounts, 2 MSN, 1 Verizon and the standard, Outlook, MMS and Text accounts.

[Mike Temporale]

What ever happened to meaningful error messages? Sounds like that would be a common error, especially since the support team seems to know the answer pretty quickly. It can't be that hard to put in a meaningful message for that error.

[shk718]

i just signed up for mail2web for free push- seems to work good. but what i'm doing is forewarding my gmail to it and having it push it to my smartphone. does anyone know if there is a way to change the reply to address so that i can point to my gmail instead of mail2web?

[StefanScoon]

I've also tried this program and its really just too much. Consilient Push is another free app that does not require the PC connector and has been working quite well for me.