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MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi Fri Mar 23 17:48:38 2012
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:48 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] IDLE + inbox file
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In-Reply-To: <A9124E0E-76A1-4853-AEC6-2F7D519754B7@mac.com>
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References: <11E08CAD-B343-4845-9C33-1DA80AFD652E@psu.edu>
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<1234979693.29240.1770.camel@timo-desktop>
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<alpine.OSX.2.00.0902181017110.34559@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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<1234981810.29240.1785.camel@timo-desktop>
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<53E653CF-EDA4-4B4B-8B1E-E1EAF6C29B36@imap.cc>
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<alpine.OSX.2.00.0902181047070.34559@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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<A9124E0E-76A1-4853-AEC6-2F7D519754B7@mac.com>
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Message-ID: <F88F7C11-F69D-4A7D-9376-D050D4B0F97B@iki.fi>
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On 23.3.2012, at 22.36, PA wrote:
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> On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Mark Crispin wrote:
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>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, David Rauschenbach wrote:
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>>> In a similar vein, our mobile gateway issues a fake EXISTS at around the
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>>> 2-minute mark, to keep the mobile operator networks from timing out the TCP
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>>> session.
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>>
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>> UW and Panda issue an untagged OK at the two minute point for the same
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>> reason.
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>> All of which renders IDLE pretty much pointless compared to polling.
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> Is that still the current state of affair, 3 years on? IDLE being rather pointless compared to just plain polling? Or?
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It depends on your purpose:
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a) If the only thing you care about is immediate notifications of new emails and other changes, then IDLE works fine
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b) If you care about power usage, then IDLE isn't much better from polling, because in either case the device needs to wake up every n minutes to do some work and send some data
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