Re: With IMAP_IDLE in kmail2 is interval checking redundant?

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.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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