[Dovecot] FAM support?

[Timo Sirainen]

Right. Also FAM itself uses thing called "dnotify" with Linux to notice  
the new mails immediately. Dovecot uses this directly instead of  
through FAM. Other operating systems have different mechanisms, Dovecot  
doesn't support those yet though. Fallback is to just check the mailbox  
every mailbox_idle_check_interval seconds (30 by default).

On 28.6.2005, at 11:56, Chris Wakelin wrote:

> I can't see what FAM has to do with it, but Dovecot certainly supports  
> the IMAP "IDLE" command which is the standard mechanism used for the  
> server to tell the client when new mail has arrived, as opposed to the  
> client polling the server.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Chris
>
> Michael Tibben wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there any planned support for FAM http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/  
>> in dovecot?
>> One of my favourite features of Courier IMAP server is that it alerts  
>> my email client through IMAP when email has arrived.
>> Regards,
>> Mick
>
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