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Posted Oct 9, 2009 14:48 UTC (Fri) by ChrisFrost (guest, #61105)In reply to: mswatch by job
Parent article: Stresstesting IMAP clients (Hackvalue)
FYI, the mswatch page discusses all these points that you have raised, in
its "Why mswatch" section :).
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.