IMAP IDLE
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In email technology, IDLE is an IMAP feature described in RFC 2177 that allows a client to indicate to the server that it is ready to accept real-time notifications.
Significance[edit]
The IDLE feature allows IMAP email users to immediately receive any mailbox changes without having to undertake any action such as clicking on a refresh button, or having the email client automatically and repeatedly ask the server for new messages.
Usage[edit]
IMAP4 servers that support IDLE will include the programming string "IDLE" in the result of their CAPABILITY command. This allows email users to receive near instant notification of a new email.
See also[edit]
Software[edit]
- Client software with support for IMAP IDLE
- Airmail for OS X
- Apple Mail, IDLE command introduced with version 3.
- Becky!, IDLE command introduced with version 2.56 (2010/09/29).
- Cone
- Courier
- eM Client
- EmailPush for iPhone
- Emansio For Windows Mobile
- Evolution (IMAPX introduced as "IMAP+" in version 2.30)
- FlexMail For Windows Mobile
- ibisMail for iPhone
- i.Scribe / InScribe
- K-9 Mail for Android
- Kaiten Mail for Android
- Kmail as with KDE SC 4.7
- Mailbird
- Mail application on Nokia N9
- MetroMail for Windows Phone 8
- Microsoft Entourage
- Microsoft Outlook[citation needed]
- Microsoft Outlook Express
- Microsoft Windows Mail
- Microsoft Windows Mail App for Windows 8[1]
- Mozilla Thunderbird/SeaMonkey
- Mutt[2]
- Opera Mail[3]
- Peek (mobile email device)
- ProfiMail For Windows Mobile and Symbian
- SchedHandler For Windows Mobile
- Sparrow for OS X
- Symbian smartphones
- Tiverias GPush for iPhone
- Treo smartphones
- Trojitá
- webOS smartphones[4]
- Zimbra Desktop for Windows, Linux & MAC
- Server software with support for IMAP IDLE
- acIMAP
- Archiveopteryx
- CommuniGate Pro
- ContactOffice
- Courier Mail Server
- Cyrus IMAP server
- Davmail Gateway
- DBMail IMAP and POP3 server
- dovecot IMAP server
- Eudora Internet Mail Server
- hMailServer
- isode M-Box POP/IMAP Gateway
- Kerio Connect
- Kerio Mail Server
- Kolab Groupware Server
- LumiSoft Mail Server
- MailEnable
- MailSite
- Mailtraq
- MDaemon Mail Server
- Mercury 32
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- Panda IMAP
- SmarterMail 8.x
- Sun Java System Messaging Server
- Synchronica Mobile Gateway
- Teamware Office
- UW IMAP
- wodImapServer ActiveX component
- Zarafa Collaboration Platform
- Zimbra Collaboration Server
- Zoho Mail
- Services that support IMAP IDLE
