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Did you know that email clients have to poll their email server periodically and download their messages?
by bosswipe 6y ago
Did you know that email clients have to poll their email server periodically and download their messages?
- _jal 6y agoSo now I'm curious; it is pretty obvious your only goal is arguing for the sake of arguing; why are you doing this? What's in it for you?
- brigandish 6y agoActually, under the IMAP protocol a client will make a connection and keep it open while the server pushes notifications about emails that have been pushed to the server, at which point the client will make the decision whether to transfer the mails to the client (or delete etc). There's also the newer variant, PUSH IMAP. I think that one speaks for itself. None of that is polling. A primer: http://www.newbietechtips.com/2013/07/pop-vs-imap-and-push-mail-for-newbies.html http://www.newbietechtips.com/2013/07/pop-vs-imap-and-push-m...
- bosswipe 6y agoAlright yea, technically, but push vs polling is a just a low level implementation detail for how to power a a feed.