[vliou]

Maybe for Gmail, but my IMAP-idle has worked flawlessly since the day it was turned on...

[whsbuss]

Originally Posted by vliou

Maybe for Gmail, but my IMAP-idle has worked flawlessly since the day it was turned on...

You're probably right. Seems the gmail IMAP servers drop the IDLE connection over time and BIS reverts to polled operation. After a reinstall of the gmail (and google app) accounts via IMAP, things work instantly again.

[vliou]

I'm curious why more people don't just forward their Gmail to a IMAPidle compliant server, and use the Reply-To function on the 3rd party host to make it look like they are using their Gmail acct...there are a ton of idle compliant email hosting solutions out there...

[tbhuang2]

Originally Posted by vliou

I'm curious why more people don't just forward their Gmail to a IMAPidle compliant server, and use the Reply-To function on the 3rd party host to make it look like they are using their Gmail acct...there are a ton of idle compliant email hosting solutions out there...

Because if we do it that way, our messages won't be marked as read or unread on the Gmail server. Maybe it's just me, but Gmail's web interface is by far the best, and it's the only email account I'd like to have to check on my PC.

And @ whsbuss, I am very confused that you got it to work again by re-adding because I tested this by adding a different Gmail account I had. It suffered from the 15 minute polling.

[Snatcher]

Originally Posted by whsbuss

Yep - gmail IMAP is back to polling. This just started happening today.

Good to know I'm not alone in this.

It's a google server-related problem indeed. My other account at a private IMAP server continues to work instantly.

I really don't get why Google is neither allowing full 2way sync as yahoo has been doing for a long time nor keeping idle connections as it was happening just fine.

I surely do not intend to move my domain to Yahoo servers, and I know I'm using free hosting services for e-mail... but, hey, Google, is that so hard to work on this? Reaaaally doubt it.

[DeadRinga]

I had to resend service books to get it back to instant IMAP on GMail. for the last week or so it was polling.

[Snatcher]

Originally Posted by DeadRinga

I had to resend service books to get it back to instant IMAP on GMail. for the last week or so it was polling.

I've just resent the service books and IDLE glued for half an hour. Then it was dropped.

IF I get the stomach, I'll ask once again at google discussion groups why this.

[whsbuss]

Originally Posted by tbhuang2

And @ whsbuss, I am very confused that you got it to work again by re-adding because I tested this by adding a different Gmail account I had. It suffered from the 15 minute polling.

Don't know why it worked for me, but it did. I checked it a few times since and its still instant delivery.

[Snatcher]

Ok, did re-add the account on last thursday. WAS instant.

Reverted to polling just now.

I'm going crazy about this.

[whsbuss]

Originally Posted by Snatcher

Ok, did re-add the account on last thursday. WAS instant.

Reverted to polling just now.

I'm going crazy about this.

I saw the same thing so I reverted back to POP which is instant. Hopefully google will get this fixed for good soon.

[Snatcher]

Originally Posted by whsbuss

I saw the same thing so I reverted back to POP which is instant. Hopefully google will get this fixed for good soon.

Yep. I will greatly miss synchronization... oh well.

The strangest thing is that a less-active account (my backup one), at the same server on google, keeps delivering instant e-mail. It makes me think IDLE tends to be dropped more frequently on heavy use accounts...

[whsbuss]

Originally Posted by Snatcher

Yep. I will greatly miss synchronization... oh well.

The strangest thing is that a less-active account (my backup one), at the same server on google, keeps delivering instant e-mail. It makes me think IDLE tends to be dropped more frequently on heavy use accounts...

I saw that too. Others using IMAP on non-google servers don't seem to have any problems.

[GrandMstrBud]

How do I enable IMAP IDLE on Microsoft Exchange server 2003?

[ricpac]

No more IMAP push here as well... has been the case since 2 weeks or so ago.

[misterb]

Originally Posted by ricpac

No more IMAP push here as well... has been the case since 2 weeks or so ago.

Me too. I was getting push email with Google Apps IMAP, and it has been gone for like a month now.

I did notice that Google has added this new feature in Gmail, where can gain more control over IMAP.

It says: "When a message is expunged from the last visible IMAP folder:Archive the message
Move the message to the Gmail Trash
Immediately delete the message forever"

These settings are new within the last month or so. I wonder if changing their IMAP system to allow for this F'd up the instant push somehow?