From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 07:31:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED53F106566B for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:31:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 609188FC1C for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o2U7V0m6014143 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:31:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BB1A8B4.6080506@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:31:00 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Judd References: <4BAED536.2060205@rzweb.com> <4baef8de.00G1oLWhtZbJ8Rwl%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, rg.lists@rzweb.com Subject: Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:31:06 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 30/03/2010 03:01:27, Tim Judd wrote: > I've never heard of either, but when I configure my IMAP server and > put any mail client to it, as soon as a mail is delivered, the mail > client is notified. That's the IDLE extension to IMAPv4 -- it's not a push protocol as such: the client still has to log into the server rather than vice versa, but once the client has read all the available e-mail, it can put itself into an idle state, and the server will wake it up as soon as any new e-mail comes in. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuxqLQACgkQ8Mjk52CukIx6IgCfSDPdb2LrxBDJZ+csTQfn73lB +mMAniO4pq4K9gFEZ1SU53OrJOie9kaQ =oVgM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----