IMAP IDLE / IMAP Push for the E-Mail app [released]

Even having notify support for a single folder would be a great boon for me: I have a special folder for priority mail that should trigger notifications (I don't expect notifications from the main INBOX, I use it more asynchronously).

Looks like neither dovecot nor cyrus support NOTIFY right now. Did I miss something? Is there a similar alternative that does?

works like charm - changed setting for my peak to "Always-up-to-date", all apps closed, notify aboud new email with max delay from thunderbird

dovecot-imapd

Update 8 will -probably- bring per account sync schedule which @VDVsx said is a prerequisite. I suspect -pure speculation here- it will be in update 9 or 10.

Yes enablers are now in place, unfortunately there are some not related nasty bugs around that need attention before introduction this new feature, so can't promise atm.

@VDVsx Can you update us on the status of IMAP IDLE implementation? Can we expect it before year's end?

No promises, at the moment it just needs integration with the system(i.e few strings in acctts + integration with msyncd scheduler), works well by my tests, but unfortunately I got some other tasks and was unable to finish it. When latest code is released would be possible to enable from command line at least.

@VDVsx Thank you for the info! :) Sounds promising. CLI is OK, it can be even used for community testing like the connman patch before releasing. :)

@zlatko - If you want to try already, using update8 and if you have accounts-tools installed:

ag-tool list-accounts // Locate the account id
ag-tool update-service ACCOUNT_ID email string:imap4/pushEnabled=1 // replace the acct_id 
ag-tool update-service ACCOUNT_ID email string:imap4/pushFolders=INBOX

For Gmail accounts replace the 'email' above by ''google-gmail".

It maybe be flacky when password change, also it does not connect immediately after network is up after a drop, there's a reconnection timer that is used as per IDLE recommendations only in place (ofc this will be change to attempt connection immediately)

To disable again:

 ag-tool update-service ACCOUNT_ID email string:imap4/pushEnabled=0 // replace the acct_id

@VDVsx Great! My Jolla is on its way back from repair and I will try immediately after I have with me. Thank you once again!

@VDVsx

Nice to hear you are making progress on it. Its quite an important feature. Hope you have it finished soon. Not that we put pressure on you but we do. (pulls out the whip) :P (j/k)

@VDVsx I have enabled IMAP push on my Jolla as you described above, but seems there is no effect. Current settings concerning push are as follow:

imap4/pushCapable = 1
imap4/pushEnabled = true
imap4/pushFolders = INBOX

I did this as nemo. Do I need to do something extra? Restart service?

@zlatko - Sorry current version, you need this command instead:

ag-tool update-service ACCOUNT_ID email string:imap4/pushEnabled=1 // replace the acct_id

@VDVsx Thank you - working OK now! :) I will monitor and report back issues(if any!) and energy consumption.

@zlatko - Good, there's no platform integration whatsoever yet there, so there are several known issues related to network drops and device deep sleep at least :)

@VDVsxAfter one day using IMAP push(2 GMail accounts, one of them configured as "simple" email) - sync is sporadic, I get on time 1 in 5-6 mails. But I am not sure if the problem is not the same as with Exchange since 1.0.8.19: https://together.jolla.com/question/51822/bug-exchange-sync-fails-regularly-after-10819/

@VDVsx I have been using Jolla with push enabled since 10 days. Energy consumption seems not affected(at least noticeably). I notice that usually when device is used actively - message are received timely, but when device is dormant(idle) - messages push fails. But all is quite usable. Would love to have stable operation with next release, even without GUI part.

@zlatko - Thanks for the feedback, that's expected since there's no 'keepalive' active for this operation yet.

@VDVsx Thank you! Unfortunately that means that power consumption can not be estimated.

@VDVsx - with the slight delay of Update9 was there time to include IMAP push keepalive timers(and GUI)? I notice it works very well when device is charging and does not fall into deep sleep.

@zlatko - I added the keepalive stuff already should improve that, probably will be in update10, GUI stuff not, since I'm assigned to some other tasks can't work on this atm.

@VDVsx - great news! So no more than 2 months wait to get a reliably working IMAP push :)

Any update now that u10 is out?

Is not there, otherwise would have been mentioned in release notes.

I know. I was asking about its status ie. have you implemented and been testing any GUI in a personal repo or whatever and stuff like that. And maybe an updated ETA.

This works quite fine at the moment, however when I turn off Wifi, it keeps bothering me to turn it back on every minute or so, which is a "bit" annoying

Do you have the "Always-up-to-date" option in the settings for that account ? If so and enabled you can try to send emails to the device, they should arrive almost immediately depending on your provider.

rly it doesnt work as expected.

after system update to 1.4 i set allways-update and as mail client was already openned, maybe i did manual update, it worked. then i set offpeak to twiceday, peak (starting monday at 9) allways-up-to-date

i restarted phone yesterday and didnt touch email, this morning when i took phone at 10'clock i was expected to see new emails (peak 9-17), but nothing, i had to open mail, update and then i got them all, so i close email client, asked for test email, and it arrived and i got notifications

so there is no connection to server after phone fresh boot until mail is openned (synced)

That shouldn't be needed, but I noticed that network is not notifying all the time, specially when you alternate from wifi to mobile or vice-versa.

today i rebooted in peak time and got emails right after phone boots, will see tomorrow morning :) i dont switch from wlan to mobile ...

i disabling mobile data sometimes, will see if it start notify or not after got back online

@pan tau - So you have mobile data on ? or also wlan sometimes ? what I meant is automatic switch the phone does that when there are available known wlan networks.