On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 21:38 +0100, Ed W wrote:
Something I had been pondering recently (I started using a cell phone with imap idle support), was a previous poster mentioning the huge increase in battery life from turning off the radio for as long as possible. It appears that just turning on the radio (wifi or 3G) consumes much more energy than the transmitting of a few bytes of data after it's on. In particular synchronising certain types of infrequent transmissions may have a dramatic increase in battery life for mobile devices - I'm thinking mainly of the NOOPs when the connection is idling
Is this something that could be implemented with the current architecture? Are there other types of application where synchronising "stuff" happening to multiple connections from the same client could be helpful?
No matter how many times I read the above, I've no idea what you're trying to ask. :) This seems like entirely a client-dependent issue and Dovecot can't much alter clients' behavior. Unless you're talking about running Dovecot on a cell phone?..