Dovecot IDLE problem (was Re: [Dovecot] inotify support in dovecot)

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 06:02 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> Is that true? I would think you only want notification one time after each 
> new command (eg. IDLE), to indicate that the client is out-of-date wrt the 
> server. It's essentially a "cache dirty" notification. It's then the 
> client's job to bring itself up to date with the server state, at which 
> point a new notification is appropriate.

Not sure about that. However, you get the same behaviour if you abort
and re-issue the IDLE (up to a certain time or something).

> 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.

johannes
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