----- "Michael Schuler" <mike_schuler@me.com> wrote:
I have not bothered to keep up on BIS services as it's of no use to the company I work for. But, if IMAPIDLE is all you need to call something push, then by all means call BIS a push service.
What we have here is a failure to listen. Each carrier will assign you one (or more) "native" BIS mailboxes, within the blackberry.net domain, and attach them to your phone. Mail sent to those mailboxes will be delivered by the same "true push" protocol used on BES setups, as that's what BIS really is: it's a big-ass BES cluster. BIS customers can also configure IMAP pickup from off-net mailboxes, and I don't know whether that's proxied by BIS and pushed to the phone, or polled directly, cause we don't use that. That may or may not support IMAP IDLE. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Start a man a fire, and he'll be warm all night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.