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Today Google announced on the Gmail Blog that Gmail now supports push email for the iPhone and Windows Mobile devices. The new addition is actually part of the Google Sync service which allows users to sync contacts and calendars from their Google accounts. To receive push Gmail, you'll need to set up your Google account as a Microsoft Exchange service in your iPhone's settings. More instructions are available on Google's help page.

I've tried setting up my Gmail account to receive push email with no luck Google may still be in the process of rolling out the service to some accounts. Let us know in the comments if you get it working!

You may remember that in iPhone 3.0 a bug was discovered which kept email messages on POP accounts from being properly deleted. A demo of the bug can be seen here. At the time it was believed that Apple was aware of the issue and that a fix would likely appear in the 3.1 update.

Just as we expected, several people we've talked to report that the bug seems to have been resolved in iPhone OS 3.1. In fact, the issue may have been fixed earlier on in developer preview builds of 3.1. Good news for those of you worried about the security implications of this bug!

According to TUAW, several readers who use Microsoft Exchange email on their iPhones have reported that they're unable to retrieve encrypted messages after upgrading to iPhone 3.1.

Under iPhone 3.0, users were able to use an encryption option to retrieve mail, although it wasn't correctly encrypted. iPhone 3.1 corrects the problem by disabling access to encrypted exchange mail on devices other than the iPhone 3GS. This is because the 3GS is the only iPhone OS device that has the proper hardware requirements to handle the encryption.

Microsoft has announced that Windows Live Hotmail now supports POP3 in select countries on a number of devices, including the iPhone. The announcement means that Hotmail users can now set their iPhone 3G to automatically retrieve email from their inbox based on a schedule.

Apple announced yesterday that they have finally restored web email access to the 1% of users who have either gone without it or had limited access to it since July 18. According to their Mobile Me status page, they have "completed restoring Mail service, including historical messages, to all of the 1% of affected members."

As you might remember, Sybase announced some time ago that they were working on porting their Information Anywhere Suite for letting IT organizations manage enterprise email to be iPhone compatible. They announced in April of this year that the iPhone was now supported by their iAnywhere suite, bringing Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange enterprise email to iPhone users. Now they are adding the iPhone 3G to that list as well.