The iPhone and "push" email
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
According to Wikipedia "Apple's iPhone features push e-mail using a proprietary protocol when used with the Yahoo! mail service." I've configured mine and it does in fact work. Even though I hate Yahoo's mail, this is a feature that I've really missed since I quit using ChatterEmail on my Treo. ChatterEmail uses IMAP IDLE which essentially keeps the connection to my IMAP server open and thus delivers the email in a "push" fashion as it arrives.
The great thing about ChatterEmail is that it worked with most of the ISP accounts out there, including my personal account - meaning that I didn't have to change a thing to use my email account on my Treo: no forwarding, no new return addresses, nothing. And because it used IMAP, and changes I made on the Treo (deleting, moving messages to folders, etc) were reflected in my Outlook and vice versa.
From what I can tell though, the iPhone implementation of "push" email when used in conjunction with Yahoo mail is not proprietary at all, but rather uses this same IMAP IDLE configuration. So why doesn't a regular IMAP account support push email when configured on an iPhone?
Because Apple simply doesn't want it to.
Labels: email, IMAP, iphone, yahoo mail
posted by Russell @ 4:17 PM,
1 Comments:
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At 3:36 AM,
Ricky said...
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Apple must have some kind of agreement with Yahoo, but in any event, Apple and Microsoft are somewhat changing places. MS was once the monster trying to nickel and dime you to death. Now, MS is not doing it as much and Apple is slowly taking their place.
I thought it would be cheaper in the long run to own a Mac, so I bought one. Before long, I realized it was getting more expensive with so few software choices.
Oh well.
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