<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 05/11/2010 07:54, Softish soft wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:BAY156-w52C735CFA40928F2EC6D02EC4C0@phx.gbl" type="cite"> <style></style> Hi!<br> <br> Apart that IMAP doesn't handle communication in near real-time.<br> What other differences are there between XMPP and IMAP<br> Meaning, why can't you just use IMAP/SMTP as a communication IM protocol?<br> <br> Thanks<br> <pre wrap=""> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20">http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20</a> Info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev">http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev</a> Unsubscribe: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:JDev-unsubscribe@jabber.org">JDev-unsubscribe@jabber.org</a> _______________________________________________ </pre> </blockquote> Perhaps because XMPP is an extensible protocol. Then there are a lot of features you can't have in IMAP/SMTP protocol... (take a look to the documentation)<br> <br> </body> </html>