On 15.3.2007, at 4.29, Bill Boebel wrote:
On Wed, March 14, 2007 11:51 am, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi said:
Some new features in CVS HEAD are:
- Mailbox list index. LIST command can be handled by reading the mailboxes from the index. The index also contains the mailbox's
message counters, so STATUS command can be handled by only looking into the index file.Nice. Now that it can pull this from index files, it would be
pretty sweet if there was a variant of the STATUS command that
would provide STATUS information for all mailboxes at once, rather
than just for one. This could be used by webmail applications to
update a folder listing that shows unseen mail counters with one
command. Like maybe:a1 X-LIST-STATUS (MESSAGES UNSEEN)
I think something like this was planned to be done some day with
LISTEXT extension. Something like:
1 LIST "" * (STATUS)
Although I don't know how much it will help compared to just sending
the STATUS commands all at once. Although that requires knowing the
mailbox list, while the above command would get them both with one
command.
- X-LIST-STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 8 UNSEEN 0)
- X-LIST-STATUS "Drafts" (MESSAGES 0 UNSEEN 0)
- X-LIST-STATUS "Trash" (MESSAGES 89 UNSEEN 3)
These could anyway be standard untagged STATUS replies.
Another thing that I was planning was to send updated STATUS replies
automatically to client without it even asking them. That would
probably have to be optional and could be enabled either with config
file option or with some new IMAP extension.