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IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account

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Re: IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account

#11

Is there a jailbreak way to modify the settings so it checks it faster than every 15 minutes?

yes, i remember doing this on the 1st gen iphone. just modify the plist for the mail settings and change the 15 to 5 or something else. i remember there being a plutil binary in cydia to be able to do this while ssh'd into the iphone.

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I really wish they had any information about the technical details behind this. Do they mirror your email on their exchange server or something?

They don't mirror your mail, you receive a pushed mail on the msgpush account telling you new mail has arrived. You still have to read it on your regular account

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The privacy concerns here are obvious... Neat service otherwise, but I don't trust too many people with my e-mail.

People seem to be very loose with their account info these days when it comes to convenience. You'd never give your password to someone if they asked you in person, but if it's a website, that's a whole different scenario.

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Re: IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account

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An open source self-hosted implementation of this would be terrific :) I too would not trust this service, it seems pretty fly-by-night.

Zarafa's Z-Push might be what you're after — it emulates an MS ActiveSync server front-end against various backends including IMAP. It's written in PHP and you can grab the code at https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=... or find out more about the company at http://www.zarafaserver.de/

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post #12
post #4

I really wish they had any information about the technical details behind this. Do they mirror your email on their exchange server or something?

They don't mirror your mail, you receive a pushed mail on the msgpush account telling you new mail has arrived. You still have to read it on your regular account

What protocol do they use on the msgpush account? Push IMAP? Something else the iPhone supports?

Re: IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't mirror your mail, you receive a pushed mail on the msgpush account telling you new mail has arrived. You still have to read it on your regular account

What protocol do they use on the msgpush account? Push IMAP? Something else the iPhone supports?

no they kinda fake exchange (I don't know the technical details behind it) ,since push IMAP is not supported on the iPhone.

Re: IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account

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An open source self-hosted implementation of this would be terrific :) I too would not trust this service, it seems pretty fly-by-night.

Yeah, I'd love to be able to add real push notifications to postfix.

I think you meant something like dovecot, instead. Postfix is an MTA, not an imap daemon. I'd very much like to see a dovecot extension to do push.

Re: IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account

#20
If you choose to disregard the privacy issue, don't get too attached. Their privacy policy states that they plan to charge for the service once it's out of beta:

"Information collected may include: contact information such as your name, phone/cell numbers (during the course of technical support incidences), e-mail address(es), e-mail password(s) (to monitor your mail account for new messages), an identifying question for security check purposes, billing information (if you choose to join our service post Beta) and information related to those of our service(s) in which you have expressed an interest."

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