In e-mail 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.
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Significance
The IDLE feature allows IMAP e-mail users to immediately receive any mailbox changes without having to undertake any action such as clicking on a refresh button, or having the e-mail client automatically and repeatedly ask the server for new messages.
Usage
IMAP4 servers that support IDLE will include this programming string in the result of their CAPABILITY command.
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Software
- Client software with support for IMAP IDLE
- Tiverias GPush for iPhone
- Symbian smartphones
- Treo smartphones
- webOS smartphones[1]
- Opera Mail
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Apple Mail, IDLE command introduced with version 3.
- Emansio For Windows Mobile
- FlexMail For Windows Mobile
- ProfiMail For Windows Mobile and Symbian
- Microsoft Outlook Express
- Microsoft Windows Mail
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Entourage
- Mutt (e-mail client)
- Peek (mobile email device)
- K9 Mail for Android
- Server software with support for IMAP IDLE
- acIMAP
- Courier Mail Server
- DBMail_IMAP_and_POP3_server
- dovecot IMAP server
- CommuniGate Pro
- Synchronica Mobile Gateway
- wodImapServer ActiveX component
- isode M-Box POP/IMAP Gateway
- Eudora Internet Mail Server
- Cyrus IMAP server
- Kerio Mail Server
- hMailServer
- Sun Java System Messaging Server
- LumiSoft Mail Server
- Mdaemon Mail server
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