Modest’s source code hasn’t been available for more than a week, and it is already supporting Push E-mail. I created a little video demo showing this feature.
We of course have Modest running on our Maemo devices, like the Nokia 770 and the N800. The Push E-mail feature works on the device too. You can expect video demos of Modest running on the device soon. For packages you will have to wait: we want to make sure that it’s rock stable and really works well.
Modest and the tinymail demo-ui showing Push-Email
Some notes: If you are going to experiment with your own Cyrus install, then make sure that you have the idled daemon of Cyrus running. You can also use these test IMAP servers for experimenting. They all support IMAP IDLE (therefore they support the Push E-mail of both tinymail and Modest). The Cyrus one also has condstore turned on on its INBOX folder, which is another Lemonade enhancement that you might want to test with.
I would like to stress that tinymail nor Modest have had intensive testing. Please don’t yet use it on real accounts unless you really don’t care about losing your E-mails and data. I try very hard to make sure that you do have testing infrastructure. You don’t have to test tinymail or Modest with your own accounts.