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[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.9.2006, at 16.40, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> The person who designed the IDLE extension was obviously not thinking
> properly. What's the point in having a multi-folder mail access
> protocol such as IMAP if the server can't notify the client of changes
> in the folders? However, the protocol's designer is rather pig-headed,
> and firmly refuses to entertain the idea of IDLE for multiple folders.

Well, it's really not simple from the protocol point of view and it  
wouldn't be simple to implement either. The protocol supports only a  
single mailbox to be selected at a time, and changing that would be a  
huge change.

However the existing protocol pretty much already makes it possible:  
Whenever a mailbox changes, send a STATUS reply to client containing  
the changes (messages/unread/etc. counters). This is what the clients  
want to know anyway. I don't know if any clients actually support  
this, probably not. No servers support this either, although I was  
thinking about adding support for it once my mailbox list index is  
working.

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