Push email does not work (iCloud)

So the only way i get it to work is to delete the account and then reinstall the icloud email account (wiping calendar, contacts...)... it then works for 3-5 days then stops pushing again. Seemingly that points to it not being a corruption problem but a broader problem

I am having the same problems. All worked very well with iPhone 4 running iOS 4. Now iPhone 4S and iOS 5, and push email has stopped working for my @me.com email that I transferred from MobileMe to iCloud. I have reported this to Apple as a bug. Hopefully the issue will be resolved soon.

Right now it seems to have stopped working completly: no pushing allthough maill-ap running in the background.

I agree, Boerf. It all stopped working completely.

push services not working at all on 4S with old 4 sim card. BUT push works on my ipad 1 with new sim card (data only). does that make any sense to anyone??

As someone sais, seems a problem related to ios5, since on all the other devices the push works. When i'm home, my mac receive new mails on the fly, while the iphone not. I'm out of home all the day usually under 3G coverage: today morning i had no problem receiving mails, but i lost all the email of the afternoon and till now they didn't start to work again. They were all on the server. No idea how to force again the push to work on the iphone, no idea why suddenly it stop working!

Exact same issue here. I'm hoping Apple notes this and fixes this on the next update. For now will have to make sure mail.app is always running in the background. Very annoying!

Same problem. Spent half an hour online with apple support but they didn't seem to know about it.

Glad I'm not the only one, hope this gets figured out soon.

this worked for me. thank you 🙂

so far so good

Still no look with the push mail from iCloud, HOWEVER if you set up an account on your iPhone using the imap settings as below, this doe work but you need to turn mail off in your iCloud settings in order to still use Calendar and Contacts without getting the error message re. mail.

The settings that work seem to be:

Hi,

I think that everybody around the world got the same issue, iCloud push mail sometimes doesn't work.

Not acceptable! So, these could be possible reasons:

1)

iCloud sometimes is out of service ?

2)

Is it an e-mail client bug ? (Push only in background mode ?)

3)

Before iCloud I got Mobile.me and I was sutisfied, it was perfect. Problem due to lots of users (Mobile.me + free users?

I hope Apple will provide soon...

Annoyingly only fix i found so far is to 1) put it on Fetch or 2) delete the account from the device and reinstall every time it stops pushing.

Does anyone from Apple review these discussions threads? very surprised (annoyed, disappointed) that nobody for AAPL has actually come out and acknowledged the problems. I tried two factory restores and ne outright reset and short of wasting 3 hours of my life... nada

Bring back mobile me i say

Hello, I've also been experiencing the same problem with push mail not working after I migrated my .me email to iCloud. I hate to say it but 3 days of blackberry outage and intermittent problems seems trivial compared to problems encountered from day 1 launch of iCloud.

Can anyone from Apple comment on what is happening to resolve this issue for mobile me customers?

Thanks.

Seems to me like there's some kind of problem in iOS 5 that is causing notifications to not be received correctly, or at least erratically - I've noticed that sometimes they come through in a timely manner, sometimes I get notified hours later, other times I don't get notified at all and have to actually open Mail, or Facebook, or Skype, or others to see what messages are sitting there.

In my experience, Apple typically does not comment on the scheduling of bug fixes, etc. Rather we'll just see an update that corrects it one day when it is released. The only workaround that I've found in the meantime that's even half-reliable is to identify your most important apps that you need notifications for and try to keep them open in the background as much as possible. I've noticed that apps do receive notifications somewhat more reliably if they are running in the background, though the behavior is still erratic.