[kdepim-users] Re: With IMAP_IDLE in kmail2 is interval checking redundant?

[Kishore]

On Monday 13 Jun 2011 6:53:38 PM Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Monday, 2011-06-13, Kishore wrote:
> > On Monday 13 Jun 2011 2:05:59 PM Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > On Monday, 2011-06-13, Kishore wrote:
> > > > The subject pretty much sums up my question.
> > > > 
> > > > I have a few IMAP accounts with google and i have them
> > > > configured to
> > > > check every 5 mins. This as i understand was necessary in kmail
> > > > 1 as
> > > > the IMAP_IDLE was not there.
> > > > 
> > > > In kmail 2 with IMAP_IDLE implemented, is it still necessary to
> > > > set
> > > > interval checking?
> > > 
> > > Depends on the server.
> > > IDLE is an IMAP extension and might not be supported by the server.
> > > As far as I know it also required one connection per monitored mail
> > > folder.
> > 
> > GMail being a very commonly used service, would you know if this would
> > work for GMail?
> 
> No idea, sorry. I heard that GMail is quite bad when it comes to correctly
> advertising its capabilities (quite obviously they would prefer people to
> use their web frontend).
> 
> > Also, is "push mail" the same thing?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > As apparently with gmail (and an
> > android client) notifications only arrive on the inbox.
> 
> Ah, then this shouldn't be a problem.

I just experimented with it and yes, push mail appears to work well with 
gmail. On the down side, it only works with the inbox folder and not any 
others. I do not know if this is an issue with kmail, gmail or the imap 
specification though. However, google's own gmail client for android also only 
supports "push" notifications for inbox alone.
-- 
Cheers!
Kishore
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