Filed with Developers iOS Push IMAP [Case 56256]

[Rodney-E2]

So I got the new iPhone, and many of our customers have asked if we can support Push-IMAP and I am wondering if this is something that can be enabled in the imapd configuration file or anything?

[ckacerguis]

What you want to use P-IMAP, which cPanel doesn't support. Here's some info on it from Webhostingtalk

[norelidd]

No, what he wants is IMAP IDLE, which cpanel does support, and is turned on by default in courier-imap

[Rodney-E2]

No, what he wants is IMAP IDLE, which cpanel does support, and is turned on by default in courier-imap

How is this on by default?

I have a iPhone and use cpanel courier-imap, but it clearly does not do this?

[rpmws]

How is this on by default?

I have a iPhone and use cpanel courier-imap, but it clearly does not do this?

any email client that supports imap-idle will work. cpanel's imap supports idle.

I use a moto q with the FlexMail2007 mail client and i get mail almost instantly ..within a few seconds anyway.. seems to work great.

[mojjo]

Isent P-IMAP and Push-IMAP the same?

[arren]

Does this mean that new Dovecot courier does not work with any other IMAP IDLE or IMAP on other PDA phone, IPhone or Blackberry?

[hermit]

I'm having a customer with an iPhone that won't delete messages. Other people in his company are having problems with getting emails to one device but not the other. Any clues on this?

[DogGunn]

Any new information?

[big]

push-imap / p-imap =! imap idle

its two different things but p-imap requires imap idle

read more about them @ wikipedia

[BraveX]

I'm having a customer with an iPhone that won't delete messages. Other people in his company are having problems with getting emails to one device but not the other. Any clues on this?

Same problem. Came here in hopes of finding a solution.

[casey]

cPanel 11.25

Installing it now to test it out...

[casey]

Well, apparently the iPhone still does not support IMAP Idle. Calling these things the "world's most advanced mobile platform" is false advertising.

[casey]

It can now be done by installing Z-push and setting up your e-mail account as a Microsoft Exchange account. Two things, though:

In config.php change

$BACKEND_PROVIDER = “BackendICS”;

to

$BACKEND_PROVIDER = “BackendIMAP”;

If you are using suPHP, in index.php comment out

$requestheaders = apache_request_headers();

and replace it with

    function getHeaders()
    {
        $headers = array();
        foreach ($_SERVER as $k => $v)
        {
            if (substr($k, 0, 5) == "HTTP_")
            {
                $k = str_replace('_', ' ', substr($k, 5));
                $k = str_replace(' ', '-', ucwords(strtolower($k)));
                $headers[$k] = $v;
            }
        }
        return $headers;
    }  
    $requestheaders = getHeaders();

Get z-push at https://developer.berlios.de/project...?group_id=8963
Install it in /usr/local/apache/htdocs, change ownership to nobody and then set up the Alias as instructed in the INSTALL file.

You might also need this to get the delete function working.

[eXite]

Could be me, but I cannot get z-push to work. Seems to be a problem with newer versions of dovecot and PHP's open_imap() function.

Debug.txt output:

02/10/10 23:52:24 [24432] /usr/local/apache/htdocs/z-push/backend/imap.php:38 imap_open() [<a href='function.imap-open'>function.imap-open</a>]: Couldn't open stream {localhost:143/imap/notls/norsh} (2)
02/10/10 23:52:24 [24432] IMAP can't connect: Can not authenticate to IMAP server: Authentication failed.
02/10/10 23:52:24 [24432] Access denied: backend logon failed.
02/10/10 23:52:24 [24432] end
02/10/10 23:52:24 [24432] --------
02/10/10 23:52:24 [24432] Unknown:0 Unknown: SECURITY PROBLEM: insecure server advertised AUTH=PLAIN (errflg=1) (8)
02/10/10 23:52:24 [24432] Unknown:0 Unknown: Retrying PLAIN authentication after Authentication failed. (errflg=1) (8)
02/10/10 23:52:24 [24432] Unknown:0 Unknown: SECURITY PROBLEM: insecure server advertised AUTH=PLAIN (errflg=1) (8)
02/10/10 23:52:24 [24432] Unknown:0 Unknown: Retrying PLAIN authentication after Authentication failed. (errflg=1) (8)
02/10/10 23:52:24 [24432] Unknown:0 Unknown: SECURITY PROBLEM: insecure server advertised AUTH=PLAIN (errflg=1) (8)
02/10/10 23:52:24 [24432] Unknown:0 Unknown: Can not authenticate to IMAP server: Authentication failed. (errflg=2) (8)