Possible IMAP extension to monitor multiple folders with IDLE mechanism

2004-06-22 Thread Miguel Telleria de Esteban
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

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

2004-06-22 Thread 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