One of the side-effects of Google's recent GMail announcements (which we blogged about here) is the boost it seems to have given to interest in IMAP in general, as well as the boost to IMAP specifically as it relates to Google's GMail offering.
As an example, one of the most popular destination pages on the Isode website has, for some while, been a whitepaper we released some time ago on IMAP-IDLE (IMAP's 'push' email protocol). In the days immediately following the GMail announcement, visits to that whitepaper jumped by almost 300% and have remained at a high level ever since. It'll be interesting to see if, in the long run, Google's announcement does as much for the IMAP industry in general as it does for Google's own email service.
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