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IMAP connections and Hotmail: persistency?

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:56 am
by nabab
Hi,

Since last January, Microsoft has finally opened a POP service for Hotmail.
I had recently made a webmail app compatible with Gmail, POP, and IMAP using the PHP IMAP functions. So I wanted to add Hotmail to it.

No problem to connect to pop3.live.com and retrieve my emails - although it's pretty slow - but the problem is that the number of connections is limited, and after a while, an error message says that no connection is anymore possible for the next 15 minutes.
As my Webmail connects every minute, that's a problem...

Does anyone know if there's a way to create persistent connections in order to use the same connection on several scripts? The Stream ressources as IMAP connections can't be kept in a session but maybe there's another way...

Thanks!