- Feb 19, 2001
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Can someone help me fully understand it? For an app like IM+ or Beejive, you enter an email address so I understand any IMs you get while the app is off gets sent to that email.
1) How does this switch to email occur? When you disconnect from say AIM on IM+, does the program then send some command to some server to keep your AIM connection alive, and then forward it to your email?
I'm looking @ my gmail and I see the IMs delivered there, so that's a temporary storage.
2) How do those IMs at my gmail then make it to AIM? Do the e-mails auto forward to AIM (how the hell does that work), or what.
3) Is there some part of the IM app still running in an idle state such that it can accept an incoming push notification or else I'm not understanding how. Does this need to be an app by app basis or does the iPhone just need to have it, and what about AT&T? Is this a network thing also?
Let me put this in perspective. Person A tries to send mail to Person B. Person B is not there, so Person C kicks in and checks Person B's mailbox automatically. Then when Person B gets back home, Person C personally delivers it into Person B's hands. This is push put into a RL situation.
1) How does Person C know to start collecting Person B's mail? Does Person B notify Person C like you do to the post office to put a vacation hold on your mail?
2) How does Person C know when Person B is back so that Person C can deliver the mail? Person C can't deliver the mail too early. He has to hold it till B gets back.
3) Only can rephrase the last part, but certainly a service is required right? Like the USPS has a vacation hold system, so this must be built in the network? Or is this simply client side?
Edit: Apparently thats the fake push email, not the real push that Apple's enabled in 3.0. I have yet to experience this.
Edit 2: I'm retarded. So the reason I log back on and get IMs is because AIM/AOL has its own offline messaging capabilities right? I was thinking by turning on push e-mail in IM+/Beejive you somehow use your e-mail account as a temporary hold and then it forwards those to your IM once you come back on (which is why I don't get how that could possible work and was asking if the e-mail itself embeds code or something). So all the push IM to e-mail does is auto foward your IMs to your e-mail so you can read your e-mails and find out what people IMed you. Correct?
1) How does this switch to email occur? When you disconnect from say AIM on IM+, does the program then send some command to some server to keep your AIM connection alive, and then forward it to your email?
I'm looking @ my gmail and I see the IMs delivered there, so that's a temporary storage.
2) How do those IMs at my gmail then make it to AIM? Do the e-mails auto forward to AIM (how the hell does that work), or what.
3) Is there some part of the IM app still running in an idle state such that it can accept an incoming push notification or else I'm not understanding how. Does this need to be an app by app basis or does the iPhone just need to have it, and what about AT&T? Is this a network thing also?
Let me put this in perspective. Person A tries to send mail to Person B. Person B is not there, so Person C kicks in and checks Person B's mailbox automatically. Then when Person B gets back home, Person C personally delivers it into Person B's hands. This is push put into a RL situation.
1) How does Person C know to start collecting Person B's mail? Does Person B notify Person C like you do to the post office to put a vacation hold on your mail?
2) How does Person C know when Person B is back so that Person C can deliver the mail? Person C can't deliver the mail too early. He has to hold it till B gets back.
3) Only can rephrase the last part, but certainly a service is required right? Like the USPS has a vacation hold system, so this must be built in the network? Or is this simply client side?
Edit: Apparently thats the fake push email, not the real push that Apple's enabled in 3.0. I have yet to experience this.
Edit 2: I'm retarded. So the reason I log back on and get IMs is because AIM/AOL has its own offline messaging capabilities right? I was thinking by turning on push e-mail in IM+/Beejive you somehow use your e-mail account as a temporary hold and then it forwards those to your IM once you come back on (which is why I don't get how that could possible work and was asking if the e-mail itself embeds code or something). So all the push IM to e-mail does is auto foward your IMs to your e-mail so you can read your e-mails and find out what people IMed you. Correct?