As Jabber does not seem appropriate for a SMS-replacement (the clients just don’t to survive connection changes from wifi->3g, 3g->E, etc.) i’ve been looking for something different. E-Mail is nice, just the shortest polling-interval of 15minutes is not suited for realtime communication. So – theres Push Email (meaning the iPhone will hold a HTTP connection to some server open all the time and the server writes something to that stream as soon as a new mail arrives) for various services including Microsoft Exchange and GMail. How about you hosting a own server since you don’t want to give away all your data? No problem – either use one of the tons of commercial servers supporting Push or use Z-Push with your favorite IMAP and SMTP server.
The pain of being independent
I’ve spend a whole lot of the time of the last few days tinkering on various parts of my root server. With the time passing you get used to the comfort of various (web based) tools such as GMail, Google-Calendar, Google Reader, etc. You may notice that you just read the word “Google” quite often, … Read more