Dovecot IDLE problem (was Re: [Dovecot] inotify support in dovecot)

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 13:38 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> The hard part is defining the interaction as an extension and getting it 
> into a standard.

I agree. But it'd be nice to see this. The technology has advanced
enough (inotify etc.) so that it would be feasible to get notifications
for hundreds of users with tens of folders each (inotify is really cheap
as compared to dnotify for example).

> A lot of mail providers (ie. ISP's) are now providing a spam and virus 
> quarantine folder, so IMAP becomes more useful to end users, and the 
> ability to get notifications on additional folders becomes more relevant.

Absolutely.

> (I should check with SquirrelMail to see if it has an extension to define 
> server-side filters. Last I checked, it doesn't have anything to check 
> unsubscribed folders for new mail, though. Mulberry will poll for that, 
> using a wildcard folder spec.)

Not that I know of (in squirrelmail). But squirrelmail is a bit of a
corner case anyway since it doesn't keep an online connection, it
reconnects all the time.

johannes
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