Dear all,
I guess this question is a classic one but I am afraid I have not found
a satisfying answer neither in the IMAP FAQ nor in the UW-IMAPD
package documentation.
What I would like to know is an effective way of monitoring a large
number of folders under an IMAP tree without having to keep
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