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MBOX-Line: From snowjn at aol.com Mon Oct 4 18:05:50 2010
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: John Snow <snowjn@aol.com>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:45 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] Fwd: iOS IMAP IDLE (Standard "Push Email")
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Deficiency, Explanation?
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In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1010041749370.392@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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References: <352410DE-19D8-4EE4-8741-AB82741D7A18@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com>
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<4CAA0F5C.7030009@lists.grepular.com>
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<alpine.OSX.2.00.1010041034520.392@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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<7D32DBF6-2ECC-4854-85A8-84261D828ED2@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com>
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<11166.1286223088.054596@puncture>
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<alpine.OSX.2.00.1010041338040.392@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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<4CAA7379.3070307@aol.com>
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<alpine.OSX.2.00.1010041749370.392@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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Message-ID: <4CAA79EE.20003@aol.com>
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Mark Crispin wrote:
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> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, John Snow wrote:
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>>> There is no reason for any desktop client to use IDLE, and negligible
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>>> reason for a laptop client to do so.
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>> I'm surprised to hear you say that. IDLE gives me instant
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>> notification of
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>> new mail. Anything else relies on the client to poll periodically.
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>> That's
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>> definitely less than instant. Is there a better way?
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>
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> That assumes that the IMAP server notifies instantly, instead of polling
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> internally at a fixed interval. This, in turn, assumes some form of
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> message passing between the MDA and the IMAP server.
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That's true. I took that as am implied requirement for implementing IDLE.
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>
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> I find it remarkable that anyone can get bent out of shape because it may
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> take as much as a minute or two to be notified about a newly arrived
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> email; particularly as it may have taken some ungodly amount of time for
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> the message to have travelled from the senders MSA and the recipient's
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> MDA.
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>
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We live in a world full of impatient people.
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> We have a perfectly good facility called instant messaging for real-time
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> communication.
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>
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Or a phone, where this discussion started.
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> -- Mark --
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>
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> http://panda.com/mrc
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> Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
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> Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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