Hotmail is no longer pushing emails to my phone...

iCloud, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch: Some of my emails/updates don't seem to be pushed to my device

iOS: Hotmail, Live, or MSN email accounts

I'm having the same problem in iOS 5.1.1. I have an iPhone 4S. This has only been happening the past few days.

If you are accessing the account as an Exchange account with the iPhone's Mail app which is the only way to have push access for received email with a Hotmail account, any problem with email being pushed out by the incoming mail server is a Microsoft problem.

I am having the same problem. Started a few days ago. I tried deleting the account and rebooting and adding account again and nothng works! Very fustrating not getting push email. I am not getting my email unless I manually open my mail folder. Today it pushed for 1/2 the day and it is starting again. Apple needs to do something. I know many people having this issue all of a sudden. Apple, help!

If you are accessing the account as an Exchange account with the iPhone's Mail app which is the only way to have push access for received email with a Hotmail account, any problem with email being pushed out by the incoming mail server is a Microsoft problem.

I'm not sure I agree. It's likely that it could be, but the Mail client could also be buggy. Why assume without a doubt that the problem is on Microsoft's end?

Then you don't understand push access, which originates at the server.

And where does it end up after the server pushes it? That's right, you know the answer. Everybody else reading this does, too.

Failures in IT services can happen on any link in the chain.

Apple needs to do something.

Have you contacted Microslop buddy boy?

Would you like assistance or would you like to attack those trying to help you? That is right he is just trying to help you. The links I posted above and Allan's advice will get you far. Listen to him you should, advice is good that he has.

I really don't think it's Microsoft. I am getting my mail on 3 computers via outlook and on my android tablet with no problem at all. Only on my IPhone I'm not getting push. And this is the device I need it to because it's always with me. What's the point to have to manually keep checking your email! Very upset over this. It has worked persect until a few days ago.

I don't see where anybody attacked anybody.

That said, Allan didn't offer "advice". He just said it's a Microsoft problem, which makes a lot of assumptions and does nothing to help. It also doesn't help to tell me I "don't understand push access", which is a very condescending statement to make.

I don't intend to spend my time going back and forth in this way, so this is the last post I will make on this topic other than discussions directly involving the problem at hand.

I appreciate the links you posted, by the way, but they didn't help in my case.

It could very well be a Microsoft problem. When changes happen on your account such as new messages arriving, it's Microsoft's responsibility to push those changes to the device.

What I'm not certain about is whether email push services such as Hotmail and Yahoo Mail use Apple's Push Notification Service or if they work outside of that. I'm off to read http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Concept ual/RemoteNotificationsPG/ApplePushService/ApplePushService.html.

If you set up exchange then the push works as Allan stated. I use exchange for hotmail and the 750+ emails I got today on my iPhone indicates that it is working. I would suggest deleting it and set it up again as it could be account related.

RMS043061 wrote:

Only on my IPhone I'm not getting push.

Did you set up your Hotmail account on your iPhone as an Exchange account, or as the default Hotmail account type in your Settings? If you didn't set it up as Exchange, you won't get push. And if you think you had push while set up as a standard Hotmail account on your iPhone, you're mistaken (you had fetch).