Comments on: IMAP-IDLE plugin for Apple Mail http://blog.codefront.net/2007/02/25/imap-idle-plugin-for-apple-mail/ Rails, Firefox, Anime, Mac Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:38:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: redemption in a blog - Thunderbird 2.0 and Gmail integration http://blog.codefront.net/2007/02/25/imap-idle-plugin-for-apple-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-160190 redemption in a blog - Thunderbird 2.0 and Gmail integration Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:58:50 +0000 http://blog.codefront.net/2007/02/25/imap-idle-plugin-for-apple-mail/#comment-160190 [...] email client with Thunderbird than with Apple Mail. Posted by Chu Yeow at April 29, 2007 SGT | Permalink | | Category:Mozilla [...] [...] email client with Thunderbird than with Apple Mail. Posted by Chu Yeow at April 29, 2007 SGT | Permalink | | Category:Mozilla [...]

]]> By: Harish Mallipeddi http://blog.codefront.net/2007/02/25/imap-idle-plugin-for-apple-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-122892 Harish Mallipeddi Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:12:46 +0000 http://blog.codefront.net/2007/02/25/imap-idle-plugin-for-apple-mail/#comment-122892 Thanks. Didn't know about IMAP-IDLE before reading this. Googling it seems to return lot of results about iPhone using IDLE with Yahoo! Mail for push mail. AFAIK, the way it seems to work is to keep a TCP connection to the IMAP server alive and listen on that port for updates from the server. I really don't have a problem with IMAP polling every 1 minute or so in terms of bandwidth or CPU cycles. The actual annoying part is when Outlook brings up a pop-up window complaining that it couldn't make the connection because of some network error (and then it freezes and I have to stop it and re-launch it). Switching to IDLE wouldn't really fix this problem (I think!) because Outlook might still complain that it lost this TCP connection. Thanks. Didn’t know about IMAP-IDLE before reading this. Googling it seems to return lot of results about iPhone using IDLE with Yahoo! Mail for push mail. AFAIK, the way it seems to work is to keep a TCP connection to the IMAP server alive and listen on that port for updates from the server.

I really don’t have a problem with IMAP polling every 1 minute or so in terms of bandwidth or CPU cycles. The actual annoying part is when Outlook brings up a pop-up window complaining that it couldn’t make the connection because of some network error (and then it freezes and I have to stop it and re-launch it). Switching to IDLE wouldn’t really fix this problem (I think!) because Outlook might still complain that it lost this TCP connection.

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