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Posted Oct 9, 2009 13:10 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670)
In reply to: mswatch by ChrisFrost
Parent article: Stresstesting IMAP clients (Hackvalue)

The IMAP protocol needs to be fixed so many IDLE commands can be active simultaneously or given the ability to IDLE over several mailboxes, whatever is best protocol-wise. This should be fixed in the most common implementations. IMHO, kludges will only make that work more difficult.

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Posted Oct 9, 2009 14:48 UTC (Fri) by ChrisFrost (guest, #61105) [Link] (1 responses)

FYI, the mswatch page discusses all these points that you have raised, in
its "Why mswatch" section :).

"The author of IMAP, Mark Crispin, does not see this capability [multi-
mailbox IDLE] as belonging in IMAP. He states that multiple mailbox
notification belongs in a separate protocol designed for event notification
[http://www.webservertalk.com/message1459531-1.html#post40... ]."

FYI, the Lemonade working group is working on such a protocol. But this is
still in the works. http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/lemonade-charter.html
Hopefully one day mswatch will only poorly duplicate commonly available
functionality. But until then, mswatch is already available.

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Posted Oct 10, 2009 2:35 UTC (Sat) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

> The author of IMAP, Mark Crispin, does not see this capability [multi-
> mailbox IDLE] as belonging in IMAP

Be that as it may,
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lemonade-imap-notif...