True push email comes to iPhone One of, if not the best feature of the BlackBerry is its push email. Once an email comes into your inbox you are notified of it, no need to setup a specified time for your device to check for new email. Out of the box an iPhone will check mail at specified times of every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, and every hour, as well as manually checking for mail. Push-email has now made its way to iPhone in an app called iMapIdle .

iMapIdle is an iPhone application that simulates "Push Email" with your IMAP server. It's in its early stages but the current features are:

- listens in the background waiting for new IMAP mail even if you are in sleep/standby mode

- notifies you via a popup and/or sound. You choose how to be notified. Sound notification should use the same method your mail client uses (ie: if you have vibrate on, it'll vibrate as well)

- popup notification allows you to choose whether the mail client should check for email right there. NOTE: Don't choose this if you are in the mail client as it will exit (you've been warned). The popup will disappear after 20 seconds and if you miss it the iMapIdle icon will show you how many popup notifications you have missed

- supports SSL connections and special support for GMail IMAP

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 11/08/2007 12:44:00 PM