Blackberry vs PC: How emails work

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For the first stride, let us take a look at what happens when you access your e-mail account from your PC: Every time your e-mail client (whether it is Thunderbird or GMail's web interface) refreshes the e-mail in your inbox, whether it is automatically after a set interval, or you refresh it manually, your computer will send a request to your mail provider's servers.

The mail provider then checks for new mail and returns the same to you. This is pull mail, working pretty much like you expect the web to work.

All was hunky-dory in the world of e-mail, until mobiles-dapper-enough-for-e-mail came along. The steps above were followed on the earlier handsets, and they'd flaunt their GPRS capabilities and fetch mail on the go. But with constrictions of battery life and data charges, it was soon realised that the current system of e-mail was not the most efficient for phones. Thus was born Push-mail.

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