[Dovecot] FAM support?

[Michael Tibben]

Cool... that makes sense
thanks for the quick response!

MT


Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Right. Also FAM itself uses thing called "dnotify" with Linux to 
> notice  the new mails immediately. Dovecot uses this directly instead 
> of  through FAM. Other operating systems have different mechanisms, 
> Dovecot  doesn't support those yet though. Fallback is to just check 
> the mailbox  every mailbox_idle_check_interval seconds (30 by default).
>
> On 28.6.2005, at 11:56, Chris Wakelin wrote:
>
>> I can't see what FAM has to do with it, but Dovecot certainly 
>> supports  the IMAP "IDLE" command which is the standard mechanism 
>> used for the  server to tell the client when new mail has arrived, as 
>> opposed to the  client polling the server.
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>> Chris
>>
>> Michael Tibben wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Is there any planned support for FAM 
>>> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/  in dovecot?
>>> One of my favourite features of Courier IMAP server is that it 
>>> alerts  my email client through IMAP when email has arrived.
>>> Regards,
>>> Mick
>>
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