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Re: IMAP IDLE application!!! Finally!!!

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Originally Posted by gxnext View Post
Sweet, right now i use a combination of imap and gmail to forward to web2mails microsoft push email server and get my email alerts that way. but this sounds good. i'm not going to try it just yet because I prefer the phone to do it naively that's why i use microsoft exchange (and this ways been workin out great for me) but I'm looking forward to later versions. thanx for the heads up!
Yeah, thats exactly what I've been doing, but its kind of a pain because you have to switch over to your gmail account to respond. It's nice to get rid of that intermediate step.

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Originally Posted by schettj View Post
I've been keeping an eye on that - it kinda stopped being developed in September, and I thought it still had issues.
We'll the latest I've seen from the developer was last week saying that he was putting the "finishing touches" on the next release, so it looks like it's still going.

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Originally Posted by TurboFool View Post
Interesting idea, but my suspicion is that this would kill the little battery life we already have...
It'll function the same as PUSH and Exchange as far as battery life. So if you're already using PUSH, I doubt you'll notice a difference.
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