[geeks] Emulating MS Exchange Push

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 08:36:29 CST 2009


Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:08:50AM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> Anyone know of a way to emulate Microsoft Exchange's push
>> functionality under UNIX, preferably using Postfix?  It would enable
>> me to get email from my own server pushed out to my DROID.
>
> Won't using an IMAP server that has IDLE support (eg Dovecot) work?

Nope.  I need ActiveSync protocol, otherwise I'll have to just use 
polling, which isn't what I'm looking to do.

Peace...  Sridhar



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