[X4U] Re: Mail.app and IMAP IDLE?

[Lists]

On Feb 19, 2006, at 11:16 PM, Lists wrote:

> Does anyone know if Mail.app can do IMAP IDLE (for servers which
> support it) and if so, how?
>
> I've been googling and at Apple.com and can't find any references to
> it, so I'm assuming the answer is no... but figured I'd ask.


Confirmed that Apple's Mail.app does NOT support IDLE.

http://blog.aaronmarks.com/2005/12/apples-mailapp-missing-imaps- 
idle.html

Apparently only Thunderbird and Entourage do for Mac OS X.