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English - Android => How do I... => Topic started by: mauricio on March 21, 2014, 05:44:43 am

Title: Hotmail Push
Post by: mauricio on March 21, 2014, 05:44:43 am

Hi ... Does aquamail allow me to setup my hotmail account and receive mail via push method, so I receive mail as soon as they hit the server? I've tried but the only way I can get my mail is to sync manually!

Title: Re: Hotmail Push
Post by: Kostya Vasilyev on March 24, 2014, 02:37:09 am

Microsoft's IMAP implementation turned out rather poorly.

Not only it does not have IMAP IDLE (the industry standard for push mail, used by Gmail, AOL, Fastmail, even Exhange), but it lacks some other, more basic, IMAP features (e.g. UIDPLUS for efficiently moving messages between folders).

It can also error out when mail apps try to connect and authenticate, esp. when there are many messages in your Inbox (IIRC, "many" here means "more than one or two hundred").

So, all in all, a big disappointment so far, and is the reason why the preset in Aqua is still POP3.