On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:10:59AM +0100, Richard Bang wrote: > A new command set MONITOR and UNMONITOR would solve this as it would > allow my client to be notified of any mailbox it were interested in.
I've suggested similiar commands before.. And Mark was also planning some "new mail" notification. Anyway, I think the nicest way to do this would be to tell server to send standard untagged STATUS replies for specified folders. Or server could do that by itself always if it doesn't cause extra trouble for it. Only problem would be to make clients realize they don't have to poll for STATUS if server decides to send it automatically. Getting notified of some flag changes (custom flags especially) could be useful as well but I'm not sure how that'd work. Didn't status-counters extension support that? STATUS notification could be enough with it then. Configuring this thing could be done with ANNOTATEMORE extension.
