Is thunderbird and gmail a good option to use the digikam mailing list ?

[Stuart T Rogers]

According to 
http://kb.mozillazine.org/IMAP:_advanced_account_configuration it does 
using the IDLE command.

Stuart

On 26/01/17 14:46, Chris Green wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 02:41:43PM +0000, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>> Thunderbird supports IMAP out of the box....
>>
> Yes, it supports IMAP of course, but does it support the IMAP Push
> extension to the protocol?
>
> A quick search indicates that this is a bit of a grey area, it's not
> obvious whether Thunderbird supports it ot not.
>
> (As an aside it's one of the reasons that I have stopped using IMAP,
> it's too big and complex for full agreement between server and client
> about how it works.  I now get my mail PUSHed to a local spool by
> having an SMTP server on my system, running all the time)
>

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