Can't get IDLE working..

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Monday 09 February 2009 13:59:52 Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > It is annoying Pocket Outlook has such a gimpy IMAP engine though
> > (FlexMail is
> > nice however)
>
> I wouldn't know, I still do all my own email via offlineimap on my laptop
> and then mutt against the Maildirs.  No IDLE support or anything.  I'll
> probably kick that aside for something nicer one day, but it's working for
> now.

Yeah I use kontact/kmail on my laptop, no IDLE support there either. I don't 
really want it either - too disruptive.

It's good for mobile devices though, saves battery as it doesn't have to poll 
the server all the time.

> (besides, it means I batch email rather than getting continually
> interrupted)

Yep :)

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