On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Russell Coker wrote:
> Another thing, do the webmail systems use directory notifications? With > directory notifications the application can be informed by the kernel > when new files are created. The IMAP protocol supports announcing new > mail to the client. If the mail store and the webmail system are on > separate machines then IMAP is the only way to avoid polling for new mail > (AFAIK directory notifications don't work over NFS). Thanx, I didn't know this feature... Acctually, I'm not so familiar with IMAP protocol yet... > So now you're planning to write your own webmail program? Yes, we need some nonusuall features... > I suggest that when a user logs in they get an IMAP connection. An > option to have the IMAP connection timeout and be closed before the > webmail system times out (webmail timeout on no activity should be long > like 30 minutes while IMAP timeout should be 10 minutes at most) would be > handy, but isn't required. But generally IMAP connections should stay > open for the duration of the session. That's as I see it, thanx.. All the actual logic will be implemented in the middle tier daemon(s). -=Czaj-nick=-