2011/2/3 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) <vanmeeu...@kolabsys.com>
> Sébastien Michel wrote: > > > Our clients ask us to open IMAP (previously mostly POP and Webmail > access) > > > for their customers. > > > The impact is significant on I/O, specifically when IMAP clients poll to > > > ask for new messages. > > > > > > Most of their customers use Outlook Express (Windows XP) or the new > Windows > > > Mail (Vista and Seven). > > > The impact of Outlook Express on I/O could be reduced thanks to IMAP > IDLE. > > > > > I wasn't aware Outlook Express is still supported? > I don't have Vista or Seven to test Windows Mail. But I assume it is the same dll so with the same bug. And the bug impacts Outlook too. I will test with outlook 2007 soon. > In any case, I very much doubt it is worthwhile fixing this on the server > side, as some sort of nasty workaround for broken clients. Once we start > going that route, none of the clients that pretend to be able to speak IMAP > will have to actually be anywhere near compatible with the IMAP > specifications. > > That said, however, if it is worthwhile, and somebody decides to provide a > patch to fix it, I'm not going to stop anyone from doing just that! ;-) > > My patch is the same as dovecot's one. The UW's patch is probably better (force Outlook to exit the IDLE state). I create an issue in bugzilla. Regards, Sébastien
