Free Push Email on Your Phone

Many business users have email servers that send out emails to the Blackberries and other mobile devices the instant emails arrive on the server. This facility usually costs money. The rest of us have to survive by consciously telling our mobile phones to log on to our email servers to check to see whether or not any email has arrived. We then have to consciously download it.

Of course, for a large number of people consciously checking for email on your phone while you are away from your desktop or laptop computer is not a great inconvenience. I took the view that if other people could automatically have it instantly delivered to their phone message box, why couldn't I? I have been searching for a solution to this for some time and have finally found one that works for me. Here is what you need to do:
1) Set up a free Gmail account.
2) In the settings of your Gmail account, under Accounts, instruct Gmail to collect mail from your normal email server.
3) Set up a free email account at Cortado.
4) In the settings on your new Gmail account, under Forwarding, instruct Gmail to forward a copy of each mail you receive to your new Cortado account.
5) On your phone, set it up to send and receive email via your Cortado account (instructions how to do this on the Cortado site).
6) Send and receive from your phone using your Cortado account and you will receive a message asking if you want to receive PUSH emails. Accept.

That's it. Any mail you receive will be collected by Gmail, sent to Cortado, and then delivered to your phone. If you have a mobile tariff where you receive unlimited internet access you should incur no extra charges. If you receive a lot of email you may need to check the internet data allowance on your tariff.