[Dovecot] Thunderbird problem

[Stan Hoeppner]

tomas at tuxteam.de put forth on 6/26/2010 11:52 PM:

> The references are spot-on. The IDLE command is just designed to notify
> changes to the *selected* mailbox. And a client can have just one
> selected mailbox (per-connection, that is). That's simply a limitation
> of the protocol. Clients may work around this by opening several
> connections and selecting one mailbox per connection.

None of this is laid out in RFC2177.

> And refusing to read 130 lines of RFC (the first one, describing IDLE is
> really that short) to just say "meh, I don't believe you" doesn't sound
> really appropriate.

None of the relevant things we're discussing are in RFC2177 anyway.  They're
in RFC3501, which is rather lengthy.

Regardless, my point is valid and stands:  there is no (good) reason for the
protocol to require multiple socket connections when everything can be
accomplished more efficiently (in terms of resources consumed) over a single
socket.  I'm sure many people more qualified than me have pointed this out WRT
the IMAP protocol over the years.

-- 
Stan