[Dovecot] IMAP IDLE - iPhone?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Aug 23 21:50:16 EEST 2012


On 14.8.2012, at 11.18, Timo Sirainen wrote:

>> As Timo says, Dovecot tries to be clever and coalesce packets from checking multiple folders, but from memory there are limitations on this if you have multiple *accounts*?  I think the hash is per email address and per IP ?
> 
> Yes, doesn't help with multiple accounts, because the hashed username is different (no IP). I guess this could be changed to be per IP just as well. I think I wondered about which one to use previously but didn't see any point in choosing IP over username, but yes, multiple accounts could be a reason, especially after the whole world is using only Dovecot. :)

v2.2 has this now: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/8d7f9e2d726c




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