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I've setup Gmail and Yahoo IMAP email accounts in Outlook 2010.

When I get a new email in one of these accounts, should it get pushed automatically to my Outlook client? It seems like I can only see new emails when I do a send/receive.

However on my mobile phone, these emails seem to get pushed to my phone.

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Push is not available for IMAP based Outlook mail accounts. Push is mainly used with smartphones. Google (or any other service that wants to push stuff to your phone) lets the Push service on your phone know it wants to push something to your phone. This is not an out-of-the-box IMAP feature.

As far as I know Exchange supports push mail at the moment...

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Simple enough answer, I guess my followup question would be why don't they implement push in imap for desktop clients if it obviously works in mobile clients? – muhan Feb 2 at 7:51
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I've tested this and determined that Outlook 2010 does support IMAP Push notification. I've turned off my scheduled send/receive now, and when I send an e-mail to my gmail account from another machine or via another account on the web, I see the message in Outlook 2010 within seconds.

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