exchange email?

Tue Jan 23 05:52:23 CET 2007

Personally I don't think we need to invent a new term for existing 
technology. You still call your computer a computer even though it's no 
longer based on an 8088 CPU. I think far too many people spend far too 
much time making new names and reinventing wheels rather than just 
making the current wheel better.
:)

-david
Redvers Davies wrote:
> On Sun, 2007年01月21日 at 11:51 -0500, Dean Collins wrote:
>>> Hmmm well I'm not an expert so whatever you say however from my
>> understanding it is the server that notifies the handset that there is
>> email available for it not the handset polling the server.
>>>> Thinking laterally, since handsets are NAT'd to the outside world it is
> impossible[0] for external mail-servers to notify the handset by making
> an incoming connection.
>> The session has to be active the whole time and initiated by the client.
>> How about, instead of calling it "push-email" we refer to it as
> near-real-time. At least it's more accurate.
>> I have some ideas as to how this can be achieved without modifying the
> mail client. I don't want to elaborate until I know for sure which mail
> client will be the default.
>> Regards,
>>>> Red
>> [0] For the value of impossible where we don't have access to the cell
> companies network configuration.
>>