[Dovecot] v2.0.alpha1 released

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 21:38 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> Something I had been pondering recently (I started using a cell phone 
> with imap idle support), was a previous poster mentioning the huge 
> increase in battery life from turning off the radio for as long as 
> possible. It appears that just turning on the radio (wifi or 3G) 
> consumes much more energy than the transmitting of a few bytes of data 
> after it's on.  In particular synchronising certain types of infrequent 
> transmissions may have a dramatic increase in battery life for mobile 
> devices - I'm thinking mainly of the NOOPs when the connection is idling
> 
> Is this something that could be implemented with the current 
> architecture?  Are there other types of application where synchronising 
> "stuff" happening to multiple connections from the same client could be 
> helpful?

No matter how many times I read the above, I've no idea what you're
trying to ask. :) This seems like entirely a client-dependent issue and
Dovecot can't much alter clients' behavior. Unless you're talking about
running Dovecot on a cell phone?..
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