On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Ashley Yakeley wrote: > >The right solution is not to use IMAP for this at all, but rather a > >facility that is specifically designed for "push" announcements of updates > >to large numbers of mailboxes. There is currently not a widely-available > >facility which meets this criteria, but it's being worked on. > Would this be something other than an IMAP extension, then? I always > supposed the obvious solution would be an 'IDLE' for groups of > mailboxes...
What you want is a "push" from delivery, and not something that requires IMAP at all. There are also various considerations of congestion control which are entirely different in notification than in IMAP.
