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Date:      Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:06:19 -0500
From:      Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Ron \(Lists\)" <rg.lists@rzweb.com>
Subject:   Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email
Message-ID:  <E3865D82-E65A-4440-A663-6B3C3C259F6B@goldmark.org>
In-Reply-To: <4baef8de.00G1oLWhtZbJ8Rwl%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Mar 28, 2010, at 1:36 AM, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:

> Er, no.  POP3 and IMAP are "pull" services, wherein the client
> polls the server periodically for any newly-arrived messages.

IMAP, but not POP3, can be used to push, but the iPhone mail client =
doesn't support that as far as I know.  It does support being pushed to =
over Mobile Me, but not on regular IMAP.

-j


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Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/




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