On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 19:03, John Milan wrote: > Well, I think what makes IMAP really interesing is its extended session. > Consider the IDLE command, this is really making use of an active connection > to send new events. This is quite powerful and used to good effect as a > means to immediately notify users of incoming mail.
IDLE isn't actually required for sending new events. Except for EXPUNGE, server is free to send them any time it wishes.
