[afnog] Push mail whats everyone using?

[Jeroen Massar]

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.
[..]

I suggest also looking at Dovecot (http://www.dovecot.org/) written by 
Timo Sirainen of irssi fame, it is very scalable, flexible, configurable 
and stable, and is supported on a large number of operating systems.
It supports full IMAP4rev1 (and thus IDLE) and it does IPv6 of course ;)

What is really neat is that one can authenticate Postfix SMTP clients 
using Dovecot (http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#build_dovecot) 
and thus can get rid of the ugly SASL libs provided by cyrus. It also 
means all your user info is in one place.

Also see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration for migration information.
and see the very interresting "unofficial Survey about your Dovecot 
server", on how people use it, eg:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=dovecot&m=114491567705070&w=2

Greets,
  Jeroen

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