Comment by yrro
2 years ago
Isn't this exactly what BlackBerry used to do?
Privacy wise it's distasteful but it does work around a lot of IMAP's problems which still don't seem to have been fixed in the ~20 years that they've been known about...
2 years ago
Isn't this exactly what BlackBerry used to do?
Privacy wise it's distasteful but it does work around a lot of IMAP's problems which still don't seem to have been fixed in the ~20 years that they've been known about...
There are no such IMAP problems, at least ever since IDLE was a thing (which arguably you could argue may have not been a thing up until the 2010s, even if it's technically from the 2000s).
It's just all political bullshit -- the same reason you can have decent IMAP clients on Android, but you can't on iOS (they have to resort to tricks like this), except if you're Apple.
Isn't there still a limit of one watched mailbox per TCP connection?
Yes. But you're going to have a unique TCP connection per host, at minimum.
Unless I'm misunderstanding the problem you're raising, it seems like a non-issue for the majority of people with multiple accounts (a work email, a Gmail, a hotmail; for instance).
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