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MrElvey replied on May 23, 2008 20:32 to the problem "Why does it take so long for my Blackberry to get Gmail messages?" in Google:

At first, it seemed to be RIM, not Google that's at fault: according to http://blogs.sun.com/chienr/entry/gma... - gmail supports IMAP IDLE. It should be faster than POP. In other words, gmail DOES support IMAP's PUSH technology. This made me think RIM just isn't using it correctly. I'm surprised you're getting 'instant' response using POP. But I believe you. Did you find out whether RIM uses the IMAP IDLE command?

TESTING RESULTS:
I just sent a series of emails from another provider: fastmail.fm, to my fastmail.fm account and my gmail account; I check both via IMAP. The first message got to my fastmail inbox in a second, and to my gmail inbox in 18 seconds. But then two follow-up test messages took forever to arrive in gmail. I think the connections used by IMAP IDLE are timing out. IDLE was never used to report the arrival of the messages, but manual polling caused them to appear.

Hopefully someone from google or RIM will follow up. At least you have a half-decent workaround.

MrElvey replied on March 27, 2008 05:03 to the problem "Why does it take so long for my Blackberry to get Gmail messages?" in Google:

You should have RTFM!
Just happened to see this when setting up IMAP for my gmail account:
Try this: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...

MrElvey replied on March 26, 2008 20:08 to the problem "Why does it take so long for my Blackberry to get Gmail messages?" in Google:

More info: it depends on HOW you're having IMAP used.
If your Blackberry is set up via the blackberry website, e.g. http://www.att.blackberry.com/ then it will poll periodically.
If your blackberry is communicating with the IMAP server directly, you'll get different (faster) results.

Which are you using, OP? (JOD)

MrElvey marked one of ceedee's replies in Google as useful. ceedee replied to the problem "Why does it take so long for my Blackberry to get Gmail messages?".

MrElvey replied on February 21, 2008 03:30 to the problem "My account was disabled with no reasoning" in Facebook:

See http://getsatisfaction.com/facebook/t... for pretty comprehensive info on why you got disabled.

MrElvey replied on February 21, 2008 03:27 to the problem "disabled for no reason" in Facebook:

Asked and answered here: http://getsatisfaction.com/facebook/t...

MrElvey marked one of gingdave's replies in Facebook as useful. gingdave replied to the discussion "13 Reasons your Facebook account will be disabled".

MrElvey replied on February 19, 2008 19:45 to the idea "How 'bout noticing when there's a delivery problem?" in Amazon.com:

This info is easy to find on the site, Jo! Try harder.

MrElvey replied on January 12, 2008 04:21 to the question "Why doesn't google obey my meta noindex tags?" in Google:

Specifics: my old complaint was reported here: http://www.irbs.net/internet/nanog/05...
and other places - Google's direct contact form, google newsgroups...

I never heard back from google in any way, shape or form.

MrElvey replied on January 11, 2008 21:24 to the question "Why doesn't google obey my meta noindex tags?" in Google:

I've had problems with the googlebot for years.

It was ignoring my robots.txt file, and its documentation was fubarred. Recently the problem went away; we switched to different wiki software and the thousands of (inappropriately) indexed pages finally aged out after over a year. I reported it repeatedly, (even resorting to a NANOG posting) but no luck. I wanted it to only index current wiki pages, not spammed or old ones.

It's annoying to see that similar googlebot problems remain. Is it a large # of pages? Have you tried asking google to remove some representative pages using the webmaster tools? What happened?

MrElvey reported a problem in Google on January 11, 2008 21:18:

spam reports ignored

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c2...
results in mostly spam links.
I reported this a few days ago using the webmaster tools. Are you guys just understaffed or what?
I've had very little luck getting google to address bugs. E.g. there was a serious googlebot bug that I reported (in several ways) 2 years ago; it was only recently fixed.

MrElvey marked one of GraceHead's replies in Google as useful. GraceHead replied to the problem "Why is Gmail so slow now? Is it my inbox being quite full? Or a lot of unread emails? Or just the application itself?".

MrElvey marked one of lauratitian's replies in Google as useful. lauratitian replied to the problem "Why is Gmail so slow now? Is it my inbox being quite full? Or a lot of unread emails? Or just the application itself?".

MrElvey replied on January 05, 2008 23:40 to the problem "Why does it take so long for my Blackberry to get Gmail messages?" in Google:

Perhaps this is Blackberry's fault. Their systems are just very inflexible. e.g. you can't choose what email address to put in the 'From' of mail you send from your blackberry. Unless you forward to your blackberry email address, there's a 0-15-minute polling delay. (because it polls every 15 minutes) Unless they've improved things from the last time I played with a crackberry - 6 months ago (and less thoroughly 3 months ago). Anyone know if gmail or blackberry support the IMAP IDLE command (which is used to provide instant notification of new mail, but both ends need to support it.)

MrElvey replied on January 05, 2008 23:23 to the discussion "13 Reasons your Facebook account will be disabled" in Facebook:

that link doesn't work.

MrElvey marked one of Thor Muller's replies in Facebook as useful. Thor Muller replied to the discussion "13 Reasons your Facebook account will be disabled".

MrElvey replied on January 05, 2008 23:19 to the discussion "13 Reasons your Facebook account will be disabled" in Facebook:

I'm curious, how do you plan to deal with spam?

MrElvey replied on January 05, 2008 23:16 to the problem "I cant log in to my yahoo email address after having a problem with my computer" in Yahoo!:

IF you have AT&T Yahoo! DSL, you can call them for support. The phone support can resolve this kind of problem, in my experience. 1 877 733 2755, IIRC. They can reset your password.

MrElvey replied on January 05, 2008 23:09 to the problem "Comcast cable Internet service has highly variable connection speed." in Comcast:

Very insightful to learn about your contractors vs. employees experiences. Sounds like your experience was about par for the course. See ya 'round.
Interesting that it seems that they manage to fix it even if you don't get technical, but are very persistent.

MrElvey shared an idea in Amazon.com on December 31, 2007 20:11:

How 'bout noticing when there's a delivery problem?

Amazon is all about automating the heck out of things. How 'bout letting me know that the USPS tried to deliver a package to me and that it's been a long time and I should follow up. E.g. placed several orders at amazon; just noticed one order never arrived; it's been a month. Amazon and USPS websites report it's still Status: In transit.
Never received the USPS delivery attempt notice. Hopefully the USPS hasn't shipped it back.

Related: USPS doesn't give me a way to request they try again online.