Does Aquamail support IMAP Notify yet?

[peterg2]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for an outstanding app. After trying a whole slew of them I finally settled on Aquamail (Pro) and very happy with it.

Now to my question. I have been a customer of Rackspace for several years (previously Mailtrust and webmail.us) and I do know that Rackspace was one of the big supports of Dovecot (the developer for Dovecot, Timo Sirainen, was even an employee for a couple of years). With Dovecot 2.2 I know that Imap Notify was implemented and I am wondering if your app supports it.

[Thomas]

What is the advantage of imap_idle_notify_interval over IMAP Push? I think the only one is less wakelocks on your phone. Correct me if i am wrong?

[peterg2]

What is the advantage of imap_idle_notify_interval over IMAP Push? I think the only one is less wakelocks on your phone. Correct me if i am wrong?

I am unable to give you URLs (site restriction) but the configuration you cite above, and P-IMAP, are not the same as IMAP Notify which is explained in RFC 5465. Put it this way, the IMAP notify extension is a more efficient way than simple IMAP IDLE in that it appears to operate like activesync in not requiring a connection for each folder which needs to be monitored.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

It doesn't, and even though I know that Dovecot has it now, I won't be adding it until this extension is more widespread.

Yes, it's always the same "chicken and egg" story with those IMAP extensions that do cool things...

[peterg2]

Thanks for your reply.

Subsequent to my initial posting, after a couple of chats with Rackspace I did find out that they are currently just using Dovecot 2.1. So, at the moment, it does not matter