Push mail on a Windows Mobile Smartphone

You must all know that I recently changed my old N90 for a brand new & shiny Samsung SGH-i600 which is running Windows Mobile 5 (and hopefully soon WM6). I had a challenge for my free time this week : enabling push email… and man that was tough ! I firstly tried Consilient service. I installed it 20 times, tried every setting .. never could retrieve one single email .
Then I read some documentation explaining that in order to get push email you should use ActiveSync with an Exchange server. Noprob : I registered cortado ASP Exchange server for 5$/month and forwarded my gmail email to that account. Took me 24hrs + 5 mails to support to have my account working and never got the “mobile” access to work.

Finally … I was toying with MSN Messenger installed on the mobile as I wanted to chat with my tech team busy releasing a project (and my wife had taken my Mac…) and it just happenned ! Hotmal turned in and started doing push email in a new mailbox that appeared on the home screen of my device ! Couldn’t believe it was so simple and it really does the trick : real push email + messenger ! Just had to forward my gmail email to hotmail and set the “reply to” to my wavestorm email and voila !