Email app should support IMAP IDLE [36905726]

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of 36938245

Feature Request

[AOSP] duplicate

Status Update

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Description

ja...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Oct 23, 2008 09:56PM

The Email app (not Gmail) should support IMAP IDLE to allow for push e-mail
from other e-mail providers that support it. Microsoft Exchange, for
instance, does support this extension and corporate users could use this as
a crutch until proper Exchange support is introduced at some point.

I have begun work in my local repository to add this support, and filed a
bug here in case others are working on this issue simultaneously.

Comments

l....@gmail.com <l....@gmail.com> #2Nov 24, 2009 03:56PM

Hi,

Any status update for this bug?

jo...@gmail.com <jo...@gmail.com> #3Nov 24, 2009 04:45PM

While I'd like to see this, it'd be a huge drain on the battery I'd imagine

ja...@gmail.com <ja...@gmail.com> #4Nov 24, 2009 05:00PM

I abandoned my work on this feature as I no longer use any IMAP servers. That said,
to respond to jouvask...@gmail.com, this design is consistent with all other push
services on Android devices, including Google sync (Gmail, Calendar, etc) and the
Exchange support on HTC handsets and also the native Exchange support in the Email app
on Eclair. While each persistent TCP connection does introduce overhead, the exact
amount created by an efficient implementation is quite small.

l....@gmail.com <l....@gmail.com> #5Nov 24, 2009 06:42PM

A fork of the Email client (K9) introduce this feature, any chances to get it merged
back into the official client?

ma...@gmail.com <ma...@gmail.com> #6Dec 9, 2009 10:18AM

@jouvask...@gmail.com
It isn't. Using K9 (which supports imap idle) and it does not drain bat.

But the email app should also support two stage deletion (imap) of e-mails instead
of just purging to a trash folder.

jd...@gmail.com <jd...@gmail.com> #7Jan 19, 2010 09:06PM

I would like to see that feature working as well.

ja...@gmail.com <ja...@gmail.com> #8Jun 1, 2010 02:58PM

Can't believe that android email app does not support this!

lu...@gmail.com <lu...@gmail.com> #9Jul 12, 2010 04:05AM

Push email/IMAP IDLE is one of the features of the "Lemonade Profile", which is a set of protocols and mandatory extensions which provides email access to diverse environments, including mobile handsets and other resource constrained devices. It is the product of an IETF Working Group, and is largely based on pre-existing specifications, including IMAP and the Message Submission profile of SMTP. It has been published as RFC 5550.

LEMONADE-enabled functionality (like push email, forward without download and efficient re-connection and synchronisation) has been designed to maximise utility whilst minimizing bandwidth usage (and therefore costs) and provide a better user experience through performance efficiencies.

While IMAP IDLE discussion definitely belongs here, I have filed a bug for full Lemonade support here:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9698
so that this bug does not gain clutter relating to these (related) points.

mb...@google.com <mb...@google.com> Aug 25, 2010 09:28PM

Status: New

mx...@gmail.com <mx...@gmail.com> #10Sep 13, 2010 07:39AM

I too would love to see this feature implemented sometime in the near future.

be...@gmail.com <be...@gmail.com> #11Jan 4, 2011 02:43PM

i'd love to see this feature in the internal Mail-Client.
I think, with the Googlemail Accounts it doesn't do anything else, right?
Would be wonderfull to be able to use the own Mailserver or several Mail-Providers outa there.

mx...@gmail.com <mx...@gmail.com> #12Jan 4, 2011 05:17PM

Pretty sure this feature request is dead, but so there are no regrets...

bump

ci...@gmail.com <ci...@gmail.com> #13Jun 8, 2011 03:31PM

I would also like to see this feature. thanks!

ch...@gmail.com <ch...@gmail.com> #14Jun 9, 2011 08:58PM

It sure would be a great great feature.

sh...@gmail.com <sh...@gmail.com> #15Jun 25, 2011 05:34AM

Use K9 application for email till then. It supports IMAP IDLE.

th...@gmail.com <th...@gmail.com> #16Dec 9, 2011 02:17PM

I would've expected that Android 4.0 would've supported IMAP IDLE by now. I really want to use the stock app, because its so much nicer but not having IMAP IDLE is kind of a big no-no.

mb...@google.com <mb...@google.com> Jan 7, 2012 12:23AM

Status: Duplicate of

36938245

ar...@gmail.com <ar...@gmail.com> #17Mar 7, 2012 05:06AM

Please add support to IMAP-IDLE
Or do you want to see iphone takes the leading step first?

pa...@gmail.com <pa...@gmail.com> #18Jan 16, 2013 06:44AM

Need corect work IMAP

vi...@gmail.com <vi...@gmail.com> #19Jan 7, 2016 09:16AM

As far as I know, Lollipop does not include default email app. Instead, Gmail does support POP/IMAP accounts, but there is no IMAP IDLE support. Shouldn't it be included in Gmail now?