Hi, When testing with a couple of clients, I found that some do not really work well with unsolicited server status updates, e.g. flag updates or an "* <n> EXISTS" message.
It seems their preferred way is their regular update via NOOP. Is this a general thing? Should the strategy be to only send immediate notification to clients which use the IDLE command, and none to those which do not (i.e., wait for them to poll via NOOP?) E.g. Mulberry or PC-Pine (those I just tested) do simply ignore those messages, and even worse, they are "lost" for the next noop (pine catches up fine, but mulberry never gets it, only at re-login). So what would you suggest? - sending unsolicited commands nevertheless, because the clients are weird? :) - sending no unsolicited commands at all, only at noop? - sending unsolicited commands, and repeating them at the next noop (uhm...) Any comments would be appreciated. Christof -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/imap-list.html -----------------------------------------------------------------
