Originally Posted by
krkeegan Mine is slow today too.
Having watched the communications between RIM and the IMAP server I noticed a few things in the past. This is what I have seen:
Notably, when an IMAP account is setup RIM checks to see if it is IDLE compatible. RIM will then continue to use this IDLE connection as long as it stays alive. Generally, if the IDLE connection dies RIM will try to recreate it.
However, after some # of errors RIM stops even trying to make an IDLE connection. I call this the "fault stage". You can recreate the IDLE connection by deleting your account and recreating it.
When in this fault stage RIM checks your email about every 17 minutes, just like it always did before they started to support IDLE.
I am not sure how long or if the RIM servers will ever on their own try to recreate an IDLE connection after it reaches this fault stage. I have never waited that long to see what happens.
So my hypothesis is that the RIM servers had some issue last night and some of the IDLE connections entered the fault stage?
This also presumes that RIM uses a standard IMAP connection to gmail and has not created their own gmail specific system. I have never watched the communication between RIM and gmail.
I am going to wait a day and see if it rectifies itself. After tomorrow I am going to delete and recreate my account to fix this.