IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account • Hacker News Board

Re: IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account

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Post by patio11 » Wed, Jul 01, 2009, 8:15 AM UTC

RK wrote: post #3

modoc wrote: post #2

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.

You wouldn't. I wouldn't. We are not most people.

Many people will give their password to anyone who asks, and most will give their password to someone who offers them a candy bar.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3639679.stm

Re: IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account

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Post by Skeuomorph » Wed, Jul 01, 2009, 1:19 PM UTC

steadicat wrote: post #13

Doesn't work if you're also using Google Sync. The iPhone will only let you add one "Exchange" account. We just have to wait till Google implements push for Gmail.

Far as I can tell, this isn't an exchange account, just an unread email badge.

I say far as I can tell, because during the registration, when I saw they were asking for password instead of using SSO, I abandoned.

Re: IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account

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Post by Skeuomorph » Wed, Jul 01, 2009, 1:22 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #16

nudded wrote: post #12

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?

Yes, "something else" the iPhone supports in OS 3.0, which is "push notifications".

These is a background notification service any iPhone app can use that can show a text message on the screen and update a counter (aka "badge") on the icon of an app that isn't running.

Push notification in iPhone OS 3.x is not to be confused with Exchange or ActiveSync so-called Push email.

Re: IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account

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Post by Skeuomorph » Wed, Jul 01, 2009, 1:22 PM UTC

yan wrote: post #9

This service/app will fall apart as soon as Apple adds this feature.

Apple would prefer for you to use Mobile Me.

Re: IPhone Push Notifications for any IMAP account

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Post by modoc » Wed, Jul 01, 2009, 3:52 PM UTC

strlen wrote: post #19

modoc wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes sorry:( Up too late on a deployment. Dovecot is great.