Push E-mail/iCal to iPhone

We just setup a SLS 10.6.1 server with collaboration services (Email, iCal, web, etc). Push appears to be working to the iPhone though iCal updates do not. Reading through the discussions, it seems push to the iPhone should not be working at all because it isn't supported?!? I guess what I'm looking for is a clear understanding of whether or not push is working in SLS 10.6.1 to the iPhone. Thanks for any feedback you can provide!

You have email push working to the iPhone? I'd love to learn more about how you have things set up as this is what I have been trying to achieve, unsuccessfully, for a while.
Edit: I should add that I just got a Mac Mini with snow leopard server as I was under the assumption it would be able to push email to the iPhone. Reading the documentation (ServerAdmin_v10.6.pdf, chapter 9: Push Notification Server) it is clearly stated that iPhone OS v 3.0 supports this. It just doesn't work.
I spent a number of hours searching various forums, and based on the posts I found, it seems that the email push never really made it into iPhone OS 3.
So: I'd love to learn the specifics about an environment where this works.
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