How to Replace IMAP

Re:How to Replace IMAP by mrduncan on Thursday February 04, 2010 @05:02PM (#1101746)

The description for #8 sounds more like long polling to me. For push email, I'd envision something like registering a location to send notifications to (web hooks).

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Re:How to Replace IMAP by gaborcselle on Thursday February 04, 2010 @05:17PM (#1101790)

Yeah, it is long polling. I could be misinformed, but isn't the problem with web hooks that you might not have ports open and could be behind a firewall?

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Re:How to Replace IMAP by mrduncan on Thursday February 04, 2010 @05:29PM (#1101837)

Yea, I'd say long polling is probably a better solution in this case than web hooks since clients (likely) could be behind firewalls, NAT, and be going on and off line relatively often. Sorry, the title and description on that one just threw me off a bit - I think you chose the best option though.

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