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

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, August 18, 2005 3:35 PM +0200 Johannes Berg 
<johannes at 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.)