[afnog] Push mail whats everyone using?

[Michuki Mwangi]

Thanks all. I suppose IMAP polling will suffice for the time being. I
will look through some of the functionalities as suggested by Brian and
if i stumble over something fancier i will sure let the list know.

Cheers,

Brian Candler wrote:
> 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.
> 
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