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Thread ID: 84095 2007-10-24 05:49:00 GMail gets IMAP Erayd (23) PC World Chat
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604796 2007-10-24 19:58:00 Is this similar to PUSH, which the likes of the blackberry use? Not up with my email protocols plod (107)
604797 2007-10-24 20:23:00 Is this similar to PUSH, which the likes of the blackberry use? Not up with my email protocols

No - IMAP still requires you to tell it to synchronise as far as I'm aware. I think Exchange allows some level of "push" email, though I'm not 100% sure.
somebody (208)
604798 2007-10-24 21:06:00 en.wikipedia.org

Somebody: Yes, Exchange appears to use some kind of push protocol; certainly the setup at vic uni (Outlook & Exchange 2003) does anyway.
Erayd (23)
604799 2007-10-24 22:41:00 We use IMAP. Use a US hosting service that provides the email server. I use Thunderbird as my client on my notebook but can also check it on Outlook Express on my desktop. Mail stays in sync so have complete copy of email on both machines, and on the web for webmail. Thunderbird works so much better than Outlook though. Only have Outlook on the desktop cause I never used to use email on that very much and never got round to installing anything else. Biggles (121)
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