On Jul 11, 2008, at 18:31, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> Oh. Really? That seems…pointless. > > No, not really. You have a folder opened in front of you. A message > gets delivered to the folder. With IDLE, your mail client gets > notified immediately, and can take the appropriate action.
Fair enough. >> Mail.app does a sync with a >> folder whenever I hit it, so that amounts to the same thing, more >> or less. >> So I'm guessing that there's no way for a client to know that a >> message has been delivered to a subfolder without syncing, right? > > No, not really. IMAP defines a lightweight command that returns the > number of messages in some folder, not necessarily the current > folder. But the mail client has to explicitly issue the command, and > it's for one folder at a time. This is pretty much useless, given > the demands of modern IMAP clients. But, it is technically possible > for an IMAP client to quickly retrieve the number of messages in > some arbitrary folder, and check if there's more or less of them. Yes, that's how I would have thought it would work. Why would it be useless? Thanks, David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
