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juiceme is offline juiceme
2013-11-29 , 17:26
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Originally Posted by buenavista62 View Post
Regarding E-Mail sync I've got a question: Why is for instance the iPhone able to receive emails as soon as they come (don't need to set a sync intervall) and N9 (and Jolla) aren't. What differences are there that the iPhone is able to do it and Jolla not?
I am not familiar with iPhone, does it work that way with all accounts or does it need some "special apple email account" to work with; specifically what is the mail protocol used?

What I use myself, is maybe the most common portable combination, imap/ssl for incoming mail and smtp/ssl for outgoing mail. IMAP is a client-originating protocol, so the client needs to poll the server for mail.

Either apple uses some server-notification method or it polls the IMAP server with short interval (few seconds?) for incoming mail. If it is the latter, I am sad for the battery usage