bennyvdMy first tutorial for iPhonefreakz. Today we’re going to show you how to set the interval of automatic server checking from 15 minutes to 1 minute!
Requirements:
- jailbroken iPhone :)
- IMAP account (Google’s the best)
- OpenSSH installed on your phone
- WinSCP installed on your computer
So, let’s begin:
- Connect your iPhone to your access point via Wi-Fi
- make sure your computer is in the same network
- Open WinSCP and connect it to your iPhone
- to do so type in the IP of your iPhone within your network, starting with 168.192…, login: root and your password (alpine or dutty)
- after clicking Login you have to wait about 30 seconds if you use OpenSSH for the first time
- if this message appears just relax and keep waiting, it’s all fine! :)
- finally you should have access to your iPhones’ files
- if you are running 1.1.3 or newer copy this file to your computer:
/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mobilemail.plist
- if your iPhone is running an older version you should copy this file:
/var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mobilemail.plist
- Now switch over to this nice webpage >>click<<
- select the com.apple.mobilemail.plist file you’ve just copied to your computer, hit Convert on the webpage and finally save it back to your computer
- open the converted file with WordPad, Editor or just something else :)
- do you see the AutofetchInterval Key? Just change 15 to another integer like 1(=1 minute)
- save the file and send it to your iPhone via WinSCP
- Congratulation! You’re iPhone will now check your email every minute!
Note! If you go into Settings/Mail/Auto-Check in your iPhone, your iPhone willreset the interval to 15 minutes and you have to redo everything!
Leave a comment if you like this tutorial!
\\ tags: automatic server, Google, imap, iPhone, mail, openssh, push, tutorial, Wi-Fi, wifi, winscp
Technically not push, but thanks for the tutorial. This will especially drain your battery (more than Yahoo! push email)
You are correct. The titles is a bit misleading. But thanks to Benny for his first super post !
is it true that the new software will have not only push, but also somethig very similar to “blackberry” messenger’?
i wonder if theyre going to be compatible…for example, will i be able to chat from my iphone with this messenger with a blackberry user?
this tip is great..the thing is it will only work as push if youre 24/7 on wifi…or else it will charge the hell outta you on Edge..
kills ur battery as well…
Just for the record, with the 2.2.1 firmware, the plist file to look for in the /var/mobile/Library/Preferences directory is called com.apple.persistentconnection.plist, and the autofetch interval is now called “PCDefaultPollInterval”… Thanks for the tip, though, it pointed me in the right direction when I was searching how to change this setting beyond the proposed options!