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[Imap-protocol] Enhanced IDLE

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From: Jesus Cea <jcea@jcea.es>
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:34:53 -0000
Message-ID: 5410F147.8040803@jcea.es permalink / raw / eml / mbox 
As far as I know, IDLE *ONLY* notifies changes in the selected mailbox.
If you want to monitor all mailboxes, you have to use NOTIFY. But
checking around I see references to something called "enhanced idle",
apparently able to notify changes in any mailbox using IDLE. For instance:

<http://kb.mozillazine.org/How_do_I_check_for_new_messages_in_other_folders#IMAP>

I would like to know more about that "enhanced IDLE". How to activate it
in Dovecot would be nice too :-p

I hope this is not offtopic. Thanks for your time and your help.

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From: brong@fastmail.fm
To: imap-protocol@localhost
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:34:53 -0000
Message-ID: 1410397139.2469479.166104813.4C1E57C9@webmail.messagingengine.com permalink / raw / eml / mbox 
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Jesus Cea wrote:
> As far as I know, IDLE *ONLY* notifies changes in the selected mailbox.
> If you want to monitor all mailboxes, you have to use NOTIFY. But
> checking around I see references to something called "enhanced idle",
> apparently able to notify changes in any mailbox using IDLE. For instance:
> 
> <http://kb.mozillazine.org/How_do_I_check_for_new_messages_in_other_folders#IMAP>

"If you choose not to install fam, you can still use IMAP_ENHANCEDIDLE, but instead Courier IMAP will poll for changes every 60 seconds for folders opened by IMAP clients."

> I would like to know more about that "enhanced IDLE". How to activate it
> in Dovecot would be nice too :-p
> 
> I hope this is not offtopic. Thanks for your time and your help.

So it smells to me like "enhanced idle" is just "idle which actually works".  Dovecot (and Cyrus for that matter) already have that.
I believe Thunderbird just does a STATUS on every folder in the background to get data for the other folders.

Regards,

Bron.

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