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On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Ben wrote:
IDLE is not required for this. Polling, which is the default on all MUAs,
Not entirely sure I'd call it "the default", Thunderbird seems to setup for IDLE as default these days, and I suspect Apple Mail and any of the other popular ones do too.
Thunderbird can IDLE since long time, but does polling, if the number of allowed connections is exceeded. So, IDLE or polling is transparent to the users, except if some new-message indicator is not as quick as usual.
IMHO, this behaviour is the "default", if one will named it as such, because it makes the most sense and an ordinary user is not able to choose correctly, most of the time.
If somebody has already prepared a paper, when the load of x IDLE connections exceeds the load of polling of x folders for an amount of y simultaneous users? :-)
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