iCloud .me email not pushing to iOS 5 devices

Anyone have any updates on this issue?

I updated to 5.0.1 yesterday and so far so good. Hope it remains that way.

Unfortunately its happening again. Got an email. Mail on Mac notified, iPhone remained silent.

Mine works like a champ still -- on both iOS devices, iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Have you tried the steps I mentioned above?

I am running iOS 5.0.1, too, for my iPhone 4S and iPad 2, and they work fine. I did the creation of another Apple I.D. as I mentioned in my earlier post, and that got the Mail working for me. Try it!

You clearly don't understand what "Push" means regarding e-mail. It means precisely that as mail arrives on the server it is immediately pushed out to the device whether or not Mail is running. The iOS detects the incoming mail because of some background process and posts to your notifications screen that mail has arrived.

The "Push" feature was in demand exactly for that reason: you don't have to have Mail running to know you have mail.

I did a support chat with Apple about the problems with iCloud mail. The support agent was dropping hints that she deals with a lot of mail problems. After an hour of tinkering she found a support article that says it's perfectly normal for unread counts to not update across devices. She seemed as surprised as me that this is by design.

So push is intermittent - I'm not messing around with creating new accounts - this should just work as is without cludgy hacks. And unread counts will not update across devices by design.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4083

It's shocking that after the disaster of MobileMe, iCloud mail is no better.

Looks like it still says that inbox email should push though.

This is not good. The article is not exactly accurate either. I have rules moving messages to folders, but just opening mail does not reveal new messages that are routed to folders. I have to go to the lower register of the mail application, click iCloud, then click the specific folder, which then sync's and finally I see the message.

This defeats the purpose of folders and push. I want to know immediately, on the go, when I get a work-related e-mail. I also want those e-mails segregated automatically. As it is, I might have an e-mail from a colleague or superior that sits in the folder half a day while I'm out on other work tasks, and I wouldn''t know without periodically opening Mail, going to iCloud>WorkFolder and letting it sync.

I still think this is some kind of faulty interaction between synchronisation and push. But what do I know, I'm just a customer.

I know! It blows my mind that Google has had push mail working for what.. . .a couple of years now on iOS devices and Apple can't get it right? Gmail does exactly what you're saying. For example, on my iPhone I only have the inbox pushed. On my iPad I have my inbox and a selection of subfolders pushed.

I would like to consolidate everything under iCloud, but functional mail is a requirement nowadays.

It's certainly a faulty messaging system but with my creating an interim solution by creating a dummy Apple I.D. it's working just fine now for me. The last three threads got pushed to my email immediately one after the other. And that just made my simple Apple I.D. creation all worth it.

How do you set up "only" to push the inbox? I can't find a control or option that allows me to say what e-mail is and is not pushed. That might be part of my problem.

Settings -- Mail, Contacts, Calendars -- Fetch New Data -- Advanced

You can select which one is Pushed or Fetched.

Oh, I think I mis-read your message. I thought you'd found a way to select portions of your mailbox to push or not to push. Sorry.

AHA! There IS a way to select folders for pushing, at least for Exchange accounts. I see it is not an option for iCloud.

Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Exchange>MAIL FOLDERS TO PUSH

When you go to "Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>iCloud" there is no such option.