--On Thursday, August 18, 2005 3:35 PM +0200 Johannes Berg johannes@sipsolutions.net wrote:
BTW, does IMAP provide any notification ability for folders other than INBOX? I deliver via procmail to other folders and I believe Mulberry has to poll them periodically to check for new mail. (Different mailing lists and different friends each get their own folder.) Doing my filtering server-side means I don't need to maintain parallel filters on all my clients, on all the systems I use. (I gotta get around to doing the same for my address book, setting up an LDAP server.)
Yes, but only for the folder that is currently selected. And since you cannot select more than one... I think it would be within the spec to simply send an unsolicited response for any folder at any time, but I'd have to check and clients wouldn't use it anyway.
The hard part is defining the interaction as an extension and getting it into a standard.
A lot of mail providers (ie. ISP's) are now providing a spam and virus quarantine folder, so IMAP becomes more useful to end users, and the ability to get notifications on additional folders becomes more relevant.
(I should check with SquirrelMail to see if it has an extension to define server-side filters. Last I checked, it doesn't have anything to check unsubscribed folders for new mail, though. Mulberry will poll for that, using a wildcard folder spec.)