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RE[3]: Why are people making this a bigger issue then it is?
by Nelson on Tue 18th Dec 2012 20:39
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RE[4]: Why are people making this a bigger issue then it is?
by tylerdurden on Wed 19th Dec 2012 00:57
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RE[3]: Why are people making this a bigger issue then it is?
by zlynx on Thu 20th Dec 2012 00:31
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Using IDLE in K9 is an absolute battery life killer. Don't do it. It wakes up the system every time an email comes in. If you have any sort of email volume the phone never gets to sleep.
I find it is far more efficient to just use polling once each hour. It is email not instant messaging. If they wanted instant responses they'd have used some other message system. Like, say, a phone call.
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Then why doesn't Google support it on Android?
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23971 "
Now this is a VERY good question I wish I knew the answer to. Actually the only default mobile mail client I know from the past that supported IMAP IDLE is Blackberry. Personally I think all of default mobile mail clients should support IMAP IDLE (Are you listening Microsoft, Google, and Apple).
The good thing about Android and other OS'es is that the 3rd party apps pick up the slack. In the case of Android I use "K-9 Mail" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9). I actually find "K-9 Mail" much better then the default Google mail client because it supports many more features including IMAP IDLE.