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Pyare
Pyare

Reputation: 681

is IMAP NOTIFY command supported by Gmail or yahoo?

Hi i am implementing IMAP mail client. does gmail or yahoo mail server does support IMAP NOTIFY command or how to check a particular mail server does support IMAP NOTIFY command.

I tried to get capabilities.

Capabilities for Gmail/Yahoo

Gmail :

CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 XYZZY SASL-IR AUTH=XOAUTH AUTH=XOAUTH2 AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN

Yahoo :

[CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ID NAMESPACE X-ID-ACLID UIDPLUS LITERAL+ CHILDREN XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE XYMHIGHESTMODSEQ AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=XYMCOOKIE AUTH=XYMECOOKIE AUTH=XYMCOOKIEB64 AUTH=XYMPKI]

one more question is i could not able to able to see IDLE in yahoo CAPABILITIES. its mean yahoo does not support IDLE? and i could not able to NOTIFY command from both. pls help me out....

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1198

Answers (1)

arnt
arnt

Reputation: 9675

The correct way to check is to list the capabilities, so your conclusions are correct: Gmail supports IDLE only, yahoo supports neither NOTIFY nor IDLE.

Upvotes: 2

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