On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 11:21 -0500, David Ford wrote: > The term "Push email" comes from a client signing on to the server and > issuing a "look for ..." instruction to the server. Also known as > idling or long-delay poll. > > The logic of it is to have the client only issue new "look for ..." > instructions when those instructions change, and until the client > disconnects, the server should send "i have new ..." responses whenever > it figures out there is new mail. Following that, the client says > "gimme" and all are happy. > > The only problem with this is NAT traversal where a busy firewall ages > the oldest idle connections. To combat this, developers make the client > issue "look for ..." rather frequently if such behavior is discovered. > Some developers however just play the safe route and always issue the > "look for ..." instructions periodically. > > In effect, the logic of this isn't really changed from the original > design. It's just done a bit differently. Some of it is really just > the marketing aspect. Aunt Millie doesn't grok the protocol. She just > sees the "new feature!" printed boldly on a high priced M$ product box :) > > The only truth in advertising, is that there is rarely truth in advertising.
David, could you help move this discussion to the software page on our temp wiki: http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Software Others, can you help as well...figuring out software that already exists will help the project. Jon > -david > > David Schlesinger wrote: > > > > >Microsoft "push email" isn't push at all. If you read the > > >specifications, it's just another method of polling a server to > > >determine if and what segments of new content is ready for transfer. > > > > I think this is true for the "Outlook Web Access" interface which, for > > instance, Evolution (and Pocket Outlook on Windows Mobile 5!) use. > > There's some sort of back-end interface which Outlook 2003 and > > Entourage can take advantage of with an Outlook Server; I'm not sure > > whether whatever they do there qualifies as "true push email" or not... > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community