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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
right now i am wondering yet again what exactly "push" means in the context of emails on cell phones. what is being pushed ? to where ? by whom ?? who the h*ll comes up with these expressions, anyway ????
seriously, if somebody can explain it to me, i'd really like to know.
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The simple explanation:
What is being pushed: The e-mail
To where: The e-mail client on thephone
By whom: the mail server
It means that as soon as an e-mail hits the mail server it is sent immediately(*) to your phone.
The other option is pull e-mail where the e-mail client polls the mail server at regular intervals to check to see if there are new messages, and downloads the lot at that time.
(* for random values of immediate, given that things can go astray in the ether and so on)