Hi Tomas,

you wrote:

> The rest was
> actually a workaround for a totally braindead MS Outlook which insists
> to issue idle commands without selecting any mailbox.
[...]
> However, I will use the outlook workround myself, as a
> service for some of my clients.

Just a little bit out of rfc2177 (IMAP4 IDLE command):

|   command_auth    ::= append / create / delete / examine / list / lsub /
|                       rename / select / status / subscribe / unsubscribe
|                       / idle
|                       ;; Valid only in Authenticated or Selected state

As you see, IDLE in a non-selected state is valid. Couriers implementation
is wrong (responding with a error message). Btw, your implementation is
also wrong in selecting INBOX ;)

If going IDLE while not SELECTed, the server MUST NOT report any error
and also MUST NOT report changes of any mailbox.

I wrote this in the list a long time ago.

Cu, Oliver



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