BIS supports the IMAP "IDLE" command where the connection stays open and the IMAP server notifies the client when a new message arrives. So presuming that your mail server supports it (and most do now days), it's basically true "push" email without the need to do any form of polling.<br>
<br>If your server doesn't support IDLE, then it uses polling as you've described.<br><br> Scott<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:41 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlsparks@gmail.com">jlsparks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Actually he's correct. If you'll take a look at the BIS product docs at <a href="http://blackberry.com" target="_blank">blackberry.com</a> you will see that BIS-E does indeed poll non-preferred mail servers every 15 minutes. If mail is found, another poll is conducted 3 minutes later. This continues until no mail is found on the server, at which point the polling timer resets to 15 minutes. Of course, gmail, <a href="http://blackberry.net" target="_blank">blackberry.net</a> and other preferred providers act as true push (like BES), but pure BIS on a non-preferred mail server has a 15 minute poll.<br>
Best<br>
Jason<br>
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From: Jay R. Ashworth<br>
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----- "Michael Schuler" <<a href="mailto:mike_schuler@me.com">mike_schuler@me.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Blackberries route all BES data over Rim's network and has a<br>
> connection to your internal BES server(s). The major difference is<br>
> that BES offers<br>
> a much lower response time (push) and ability to sync Calendar and<br>
> Contacts as opposed to the BIS service which I was under the<br>
> impression was just a 15minute pop/imap refresh.<br>
<br>
You've been misinformed. :-)<br>
<br>
BIS email is instant-push, just like BES: my average delay is about 4 seconds.<br>
<br>
You don't get calendar and contact sync, though; they have to have *some*<br>
way to sell BES server besides remote wipe (which you also don't get).<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
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