Just two (very technical) cents FWIW:
Given claims that that Yahoo "never" supported IMAP IDLE extension...
... we can look at how things are *right now*.
This a session transcript, I'm using a command line tool to connect
directly - i.e. not using any email app. I'm using an @aol.com account.
1 - Connecting to imap.aol.com - AOL's official IMAP mail server name given
on help.aol.com
$ openssl s_client -crlf -connect imap.aol.com:993
2 - Pre-login server capabilities
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR AUTH=XOAUTH2 AUTH=PLAIN CHILDREN ID
LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS MOVE] IMAP4rev1 Hello
IDLE capability is not present
3 - Logging in
k1 LOGIN ...@aol.com ...password...
4 - Getting server capabilities again (in case they changed post-login):
k2 CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ID MOVE NAMESPACE XYMHIGHESTMODSEQ UIDPLUS LITERAL+
CHILDREN X-MSG-EXT
IDLE capability is again not present
5 - What server am I talking to?
ID ("name" "blah" "version" "1.0")
* ID ("remote-host" "10.200.64.157" "vendor" "Yahoo! Inc." "support-url"
"http://help.aol.com/"; "name" "Y!IMAP" "host"
"sky400285.imap.mail.yahoo.com" "version" "1.1.12171" "via"
"........|10.200.64.157")
The server says its vendor is Yahoo, its name is Y!IMAP ("Y!" is Yahoo!)
and its host name is "... mail.yahoo.com". Seems like Yahoo to me.
We learned two things:
1 - The official AOL server, imap.aol.com, runs Yahoo's server software
2 - There is no IDLE (push mail) capability
-- K
On Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 6:03:21 PM UTC+3, Tony Gamble wrote:
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> Thanks Sandy,
>
> What I have gleaned from the Aquamail forum is that Yahoo has never
> supported IDLE Push so if we are being migrated to one of those servers we
> can forget about being able to continue that way.
>
> I have set my errant compuserve address to poll for message every five
> minutes. I can drop that back to less frequent of course. What I want to do
> is to find the best way of keeping battery useage down.
>
> The level of support I am getting from AOL through emails is worryingly
> poor and looking ahead I would feel much safer with another email provider
> - but I don't want to give up my compuserve addresses as I have had them so
> long and no matter how often you tell people you have a new address they
> still forget too often.
>
> And look at how key people are leaving AOL as this all happens.
>
> https://www.ft.com/content/9998476e-b2a8-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c
>
> Tony
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