[Dovecot] Webmail app ... again.

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 13, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:

> Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:37:11PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>
>>> One thing that would be nice, that pretty much no webmail does, is  
>>> to
>>> keep a stateful connection open all the time (or at least some of  
>>> the
>>> time) instead of creating tons of short-lived connections that ask  
>>> the
>>> same stuff over and over again. With a stateful connection you could
>>> basically run IDLE and wait for changes there instead of asking  
>>> all  the
>>> time "is there new mail?" "is there new mail now?" "what about   
>>> now?".
>>>
> I'm sure "native" support would be better, but how is this different  
> from using Squirrelmail with IMAPProxy?

Squirrelmail still keeps asking for new mail etc. The only thing  
imapproxy helps for is that the IMAP process stays alive longer. Maybe  
helps a bit since there's less forking, but that's about it.
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