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Maybe Google should enable push notification support again for Mail.app Gmail users too.

• kitsunesoba 4y ago
  Or even just make Gmail’s IMAP support properly spec compliant instead of requiring third party clients to hack around its nonstandard behaviors.
  • AnonHP 4y ago
    Could you expand on the non-standard behaviors? Long ago I noticed that using tags in Gmail causes a mess because they seem to appear as folders on an IMAP client. I’d like to know what other issues exist with respect to its IMAP implementation.
  • jeroenhd 4y ago
    AFAIK, Gmail's IMAP uses OAUTH2 authentication through SASL (RFC7628). Legacy email clients don't implement that RFC, but it's far from a hack.
• staticfish 4y ago
  I'm pretty sure last time I checked, Gmail supported IMAP's IDLE[1] extension just fine. I get instant notifications on Mail.app. [1]https://samjohnston.org/2008/07/18/proof-gmail-imap-gimap-supports-imap-idle/ https://samjohnston.org/2008/07/18/proof-gmail-imap-gimap-su...