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May 26, 2009
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would the push servers be able to work for our email accounts as well as these 3rd party apps? i'd love that.
 
Push email already works for providers who choose to make it work. The alterations in 3.0 don't alter this: it's still up to the mail provider
 
Push IMAP has been around for a long while and is used with the MacOS Mail.app. As far as I'm aware, this is going to be an implementation with 3.0.
 
Would like email to pop up with message showing heading like sms and the new apps with push notifications
 
No, it works right now.

MobileMe and Yahoo are the 2 main ones that use push IMAP at the moment. Many others don't do it, but that has nothing to do with the phone.

I'm already aware of that. I'm saying that I believe there will be support for all IMAP servers with appropriate push support.
 
Would like email to pop up with message showing heading like sms and the new apps with push notifications

That's what I was imagining. I'm just hoping that other email providers that don't have push on the iPhone can jerry rig their services to apples push servers.
 
No, it works right now.

MobileMe and Yahoo are the 2 main ones that use push IMAP at the moment. Many others don't do it, but that has nothing to do with the phone.

My company has an account with Mailtrust.com, a commercial provider of email services to business now owned by Rackspace. For several years they have provided IMAP4 IDLE support and it works superbly with any number of clients. It even worked fine with my Sony Ericsson K790a.

It does not work with the iphone and it has *nothing* to do with a sub-par implementation - It is based on, inter alia, Dovecot. I believe you are confusing Push with IMAP4 IDLE. They are not the same.
 
I believe you are confusing Push with IMAP4 IDLE. They are not the same.

IMAP IDLE provides a "push" experience. It's not true push, but then again neither is most every other solution.

Kinda sucks that Apple's decided to re-invent the wheel (twice, if you include Yahoo Mail "push" support) rather than go with established standards...
 
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