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
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
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
Software
- 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
- IceWarp Mail Server
- isode M-Box POP/IMAP Gateway
- Kerio Connect (formerly Kerio MailServer
- 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
Notes
- ↑ Supporting Windows 8 Mail in your organization
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Changelog for Opera 8.0 Technical Preview 5.1 for Windows
- ↑ Palm Pre Gmail and IMAP: Pushes with IMAP IDLE
