[Dovecot] [OT] Webmail Recommendation

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 06:42 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 1/10/2008, Timo Sirainen (tss at iki.fi) wrote:
> > No-one mentioned WebAlpine yet, which also uses persistent 
> > connections. I haven't tried it myself though.
> 
> I though this is what imapproxy did for webmail?

It makes connections look persistent to Dovecot, but it still forgets
about its internal state, so it asks everything over and over again all
the time. For example:

<request 1>
1 LIST "" *
2 SELECT INBOX
3 FETCH ..stuff..
<request 2>
1 LIST "" *
2 SELECT INBOX
3 FETCH ..hopefully at least other stuff..

And perhaps more importantly, clients with persistent connections and
persistent state can use IDLE (or even NOOP) to update its state about
new mails, instead of polling them by using commands like "UID SEARCH
ALL" or "FETCH 1:* UID".

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