14 Aug
2008
14 Aug
'08
12:02 a.m.
On Aug 13 2008, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
I've seen several messages on the list that seem to indicate some clients don't maintain the connection. It will be interesting to see what the implications of this. Not sure if it can be done from a HTTP connection as it is suppose to be stateless.
Have you investigated Prayer? That's what we use, in a modded version, because it maintains persistent IMAP connections (among other reasons). You could think of it as an IMAP client that happens to be using a web browser to draw back to your screen, as if it were X Windows. It's a sort of clumsy analogy but in the end that's more or less what it amounts to.
-- Brian Hayden UMN OIT Internet Services