[afnog] Push mail whats everyone using?

[Brian Candler]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:46:19PM +0300, Michuki Mwangi wrote:
> There is some ongoing work at the IETF Lemonade WG on P-IMAP4 but i
> suppose thats a long way from production environment. Other than IMAP
> every 60 seconds what are folks using out there to push mail to their
> PDA/phones? from *nix environments. Am running Postfix/cyrus

You don't have to poll an IMAP server if it supports the Enhanced IDLE
function (RFC 2177); rather, the server will notify the client when new mail
has arrived.

This does depend on both client and server supporting this of course. I
believe courier-imap is supposed to support it, but relies on FAM / GAMIN to
get notifications from the kernel about filesystem changes, and that can be
tricky to get working. I don't know about cyrus, nor whether typical PDAs
user it.

Anyway, just thought it was worth a mention as an option.

Regards,

Brian.