My 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!
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\\ 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…