What Are the Disadvantages of Push Email?
Email is a system for sending and receiving virtual text messages through the Internet or other computer networks, and there are at least three ways that email recipients can read their email. For one thing, recipients can use a client to pull their email from the server at their ISP (Internet Service Provider) or other server location where it lands. In this system, called “pull email,” the user can set the client to poll the server at a desired interval or simply poll when they wish to, and any email available when the server is checked is downloaded. Alternatively, they may choose to go online, either through their ISP or other service website and read their email there, not downloading it to a desktop or laptop machine. Finally, they may decide to employ push email, which — like every system — has its disadvantages.
