[Dovecot] Thunderbird problem

[Stan Hoeppner]

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI put forth on 6/27/2010 6:22 AM:
> On 06/27/2010 06:04 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> 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.
>>   
> 
> Tomas is right. It's only possible to monitor one folder via IDLE per
> IMAP connection. It's stupid and inefficient, but that's how IMAP IDLE
> was designed.
> 
> Fortunately, there's the NOTIFY extension to overcome that limitation.
> But it's not supported in all clients (nor in all servers, I'd guess).

Thankfully none of this is actually _required_ to get timely new mail
notification.  Polling isn't efficient either but at least it only requires
one socket connection.

-- 
Stan