Re: Possible IMAP extension to monitor multiple folders with IDLE mechanism

[Mark Crispin]

What you're proposing is a concept called "notifications".  This has 
proven to be something in which people spend a lot talking about and very 
little time actually doing.  Currently, there's some talk about 
notifications in the Lemonade working group.

I wrote a prototype implementation of a notification system two years ago. 
It is quite good enough to do what you suggest, but it seems that the 
Lemonade folks want something far more featureful (read: complex).

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