So mail apps that support IDLE Push do it by setting up their own servers that sit between the email provider and iCloud. Real-time notifications have to come through iCloud. So just answering my own question in case anyone with the same question comes across this thread:Īpple doesn't allow apps to receive real-time notifications like IDLE Push. where it is suggested that perhaps Apple deliberately avoided implementing it due to the small (tiny?) amount of extra power required to maintain an IMAP IDLE connection (eg, keep-alive packets, and IP address changes requiring reconnect).Īlthough it is argued that periodic polling is worse for the battery on this discussion regarding iOS' lack of IMAP IDLE Push: If you're really desperate, you can install Z-Push somewhere to act as a go-between for the ActiveSync on the iOS device (the 'Push' support that iOS does support) and the IDLE IMAP server. Doesn't bother me, because the iOS-configured automatic periodic 'Fetch' works fine for my purposes. Seems to be a common complaint for iOS users with IMAP mail accounts. IMAP (with IDLE Push) work for push everywhere except on iOS. iOS does NOT support Push for IMAP IDLE. What I've been hypothesizing, because everyone says iOS supports Push but only iCloud seems to support it, is that Apple doesn't use standard IMAP IDLE on iOS Mail but something else that email service providers don't want to implement. I mean, MXRoute is a commercial email hosting platform and are completely platform and client agnostic, it's just not in their business interest to artificially limit availability, why would it artificially block Push to only the iOS Mail app? Just to be clear, I'm genuinely, honestly not trying to cause trouble or anything I'm just trying to understand. Are they all blocking Push just for iOS Mail? And I've been told, and am going to try later, that Push works for all of those on other iOS Mail clients, too. ![]() Push does work for all of those on EMClient and Postbox on Windows, Aqua Mail on Android, Thunderbird on Linux and even Mail.app on MacOS. But it also doesn't work for AT&T, MXRoute hosting and a third I don't want to name for privacy reasons. does anyone know what's actually going on here? Why no Push email on iOS Mail? Since neither of these thing - i.e., why would a provider lock out only iOS Mail? or why would Apple not support it (and I swear that it used to back when I was using an iPhone before, but maybe I'm wrong about that)? - makes any sense to me at all. ![]() But over time, as I added in more of my email accounts to iOS Mail, and Push didn't work with those either, I began to wonder if that wasn't the case and that maybe, for some reason, it's iOS Mail that doesn't support it. When I first started looking into this, I had only set up GMail on the iPhone and when I searched for information on that, all of the top hits blamed Google - which seemed reasonable to me since Google annoyances are one of the two reasons I switched back to iOS in the first place. And it is available on every other email client I use, including Mail.app on an iMac (the others being clients on Windows and Android). So I today was my occasional day-of-dealing-with-computer-stuff-that-I've-been-putting-off-for-a-while-because-it-looked-annoying-to-deal-with and have a question I was hoping someone here might be able to answer?Īfter switching (back, I used one until 2014 or so) to an iPhone this spring, one of the first problems I ran into is that Push mail is not available as an option on *any* of the email providers I use.
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