[Dovecot] Replication protocol design

[Ed W]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Using IMAP protocol for replication has at least two disadvantages:
>   

It occurs to me that there is at least one advantage of putting as much 
as possible into the imap protocol:

mailclients are kind of a special of replication client.  Really they 
want to be able to do as much as possible of this stuff as possible 
also...  Although clients typically lag a few weeks behind new RFCs 
being written (grin), I guess the point is that if some of this stuff is 
available via IMAP or an IMAP extension then others might one day use or 
benefit from it?

Just a thought...

Does a modification to IDLE to monitor more folders help us at all?

Ed W