You could get users to give you a read-only OAuth token for their GMail inbox, which is an extra step (although you can do it for them on the device where you h

You could get users to give you a read-only OAuth token for their GMail inbox, which is an extra step (although you can do it for them on the device where you have the username and password, and then send just the token to your server.) Then your server can do the polling and push to the iPhone via an approved technique. https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/#gmail_inbox_feed https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/#gmail_inbox... gives some details. Contrary to what it says there, it seems to work for gmail.com and google apps addresses.