Re: Re: moving mail between folders is intermittently failing

On Thu, 6 May 2010, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I think that's a different issue. They're unhappy when an idling device
> gets woken up (constantly). The "Hang in there" messages are sent only
> when client has requested some command that takes >15 seconds. Most of
> the users/clients never see those messages at all.

You're right.  It isn't quite the same, and mobile devices are less likely
to run afoul of server head-pats every 15 seconds during long-running
commands.

But there still are issues, even if the device is already quite awake.
On mobile devices where you pay per packet (rather than per KB or MB),
head-pats add packets on top of IMAP's already excessive chattiness.

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