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

[Till Adam]

On Monday 13 June 2011 22:43:36 Kishore wrote:
> 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 
withgmail. On the down side, it only works with the inbox folder and not 
anyothers. I do not know if this is an issue with kmail, gmail or the 
imapspecification though. However, google's own gmail client for android also
> only supports "push" notifications for inbox alone.

It's a limitation of the spec. There are various attempts at extensions to 
this in the works, but nothing conclusive, atm. Only inboxes are reliably 
supported.

Till

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