[MlMt] Mystery messages being created…

[Pete Resnick]

On 7 Feb 2020, at 13:35, Sam Hathaway wrote:

> Another perspective on Spark, for what it’s worth: 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/adazxk/psa_there_is_nothing_special_about_spark_emails/
>
> The short version is that there’s no way to do push notifications 
> for IMAP accounts on iOS without their server logging into your 
> account and keeping an IDLE connection open.
>
> Many iOS email clients do this. It’s the price you pay for having 
> timely push notifications.
>
> Just my 2¢.
> -sam

That might have been true 4 years ago when that post was written, but 
iOS has had background refresh for some time. It's no excuse anymore.

Storing passwords on servers is a security nightmare. Whoever wrote that 
article clearly has little security clue.

pr
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