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On November 27, 2019 2:52:51 PM EST, 'Oliver Freyermuth' via K-9 Mail 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Am 27.11.19 um 20:32 schrieb Greg Troxel:
>> "'Oliver Freyermuth' via K-9 Mail" <[email protected]>
>writes:
>> 
>>> since I was adviced in https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/4258 to 
>>> redirect my questions to the mailing list, I'm hereby doing this. 
>> 
>> I'll address only one point.
>> 
>>> 1. How is Google Push related to IMAP IDLE? 
>> 
><snip>
>> 
>> So I will advance the theory that:
>> 
>>   k-9 does not use FCM/GCM (and hence does not use "google push")
>> 
>>   IMAP IDLE is the standard approach
>> 
>>   discussion of "google push"/FCM in this context is without basis
>and
>>   basically a red herring
>> 
>> I would be interested to hear any explanations if that's not
>accurate.
>> 
>
>I could not agree more with all your statements. 
>
>My question was motivated due to comments by @beerisgood in
>https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/4258 (marked as off-topic),
>explaining that push in K9 mail works fine on stock ROMs with Gapps
>since "Google Push" is used. 
>I failed to understand how these things relate, since my understanding
>of K9 mail push always was "IMAP IDLE",
>and Google Push (to my understanding) is GCM indeed, as you stated. 
>
>Quoting myself from that issue:
>"Is it because Google push enforces that the device keeps up a
>persistent TCP connection, 
>which - coincidentally - also IMAP IDLE requires, such that the
>built-in Google stuff "by accident" fixes IMAP IDLE by forcing the TCP
>stack to stay active?"
>
>This would be the only correlation I could think of. However, a clear
>statement that K9 does indeed _not_ use GCM from the devs would be
>nice. 
>
>Indeed, "push" notifications in K9 mail were always working very well
>for me, but my device is running a stock ROM with Gapps. 
>But apparently it was broken for most users (otherwise it would not
>have been removed without any possibility for the user to re-enable
>it),
>according to the comments marked as off-topic, it seems this was mainly
>the case on non-Gapps devices. 
>
>Cheers and thanks,
>       Oliver
>
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