Please excuse an extreme newbie question. The settings in K-9 (v. 5.403, 
the first version of K-9 I've ever used) for folders are confusing to me. 
This may be partially because I'm new to IMAP, but I'm not even sure of 
that. I don't understand the meanings of "poll" and "push".

Long-pressing a folder in the folders list gives access to "Folder 
settings", and the settings there correspond in part (but only in part) to 
the information in the documentation 
https://k9mail.github.io/documentation/settings/folder.html. Apparently 
"Folder poll class" in the current version is what was formerly called 
"Folder sync class". So I take it that "poll" means more or less the same 
as "sync".

But what is "Folder push class"? The only statement in the documentation is 
"the push class ... setting is only available for IMAP accounts." But 
available for what purpose? The link to "How to use K-9’s folder class 
system" (https://k9mail.github.io/documentation/settings/WorkingWithClasses) is 
broken (error 404). So, lacking documentation, can anyone tell me what 
"Folder push class" is? I'm only planning to have a very simple folder 
system, since I manage this email account on my computer primarily, but I'd 
still like to know what this means.

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