On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote: > And Mark was also planning some > "new mail" notification.
Indeed. > Anyway, I think the nicest way to do this would be > to tell server to send standard untagged STATUS replies for specified > folders. That would be very expensive with some mail stores. STATUS requires values that *may* be in mailbox metadata but may also require a costly calculation. Does it really matter to a client if there are 44 new messages or 51 new messages? Does it really matter to an end user? Think about that; what is *significant* about 44 vs. 51 (especially when probably only one or two messages are real mail as opposed to spam)? > Getting notified of some flag changes (custom flags especially) could be > useful as well but I'm not sure how that'd work. My work-in-progress notification stuff has that capability, but it's not at all clear that this is something particularly useful. It does have the potential of being very expensive on the client as it finds itself being spammed with flag change notification. And I do mean "spam". -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
