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[Gran PC <gran.pc@xxxxxxxxx>]

That makes a lot more sense. I didn't think Google did push notifications,
I just assumed it was a server at Canonical polling my inbox and then
sending push notifications as a temporary stopgap, like BlackBerry used to
do.

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 1:44 AM Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> No, Google doesn't provide push notifications for Ubuntu (yet anyway).
> It's being checked in accounts-polld.
>
> Push notifications and accounts-polld are quite different things.
>
>
> On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 22:35 +0000, Gran PC wrote:
> > It looks like the Gmail webapp has a server-side counterpart to it
> > that receives your emails and sends them to your device using Ubuntu's
> > normal push notification service (which anyone can
> > use):
> https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/platform/guides/push-notifications-server-guide/
> >
> >
> > This is also in use in some other apps like Twitter; it doesn't mean
> > the app is running in the background constantly, it's just using polld
> > to receive notifications.
> >
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:18 PM Krzysztof Tataradziński
> > <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >         Hello,
> >
> >         I saw that even when I close Gmail webapp (that one default
> >         installed) I'm receiving notifications about new e-mails. How
> >         that is done? I mean why there is no possibility for now to
> >         allow other apps working in background, even when we close
> >         them (by swype down/up), but Gmail webapp can do that? Why
> >         Gmail is so special (besides of that most of us use it ;) ) to
> >         allow do this for it, but it's blocked/not implemented for
> >         rest of apps?
> >
> >
> >         Best regards,
> >         Krzysztof Tataradziński
> >         https://launchpad.net/~ktatar156
> >
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