On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:22:01AM -0500, Scott Russell wrote: > Simon Matter wrote: > >>Hi All, > >> > >>I noticed the line in cyrus.conf below which was commented previously > >>and now included in SuSE 10.0: > >> > >># this is only necessary if using idled for IMAP IDLE > >>idled cmd="idled" > >> > >>The IMAP IDLE feature sounds like a good idea - do any mail clients > >>support it yet. If so I will probably leave it on. Does this mean I > >>can tell my e-mail clients using IMAP not to check for new mail? > >> > > > >At least current Mozillas (Thunderbird, Seamonkey...) use IDLE by default. > >And it won't hurt even if clients don't use it. I don't know about M$ > >products... > > > > My 0.02 is that IDLE makes a large perceptual difference for me on > Thunderbird 1.5. The client responds faster to mailbox changes and from > a user UI perspective it's what I expect to happen when some other > process changes a folder.
Note that idled has nothing to do with IDLE support or not: IDLE is always there. The only difference is in the method: without the daemon, the check is done at some poll interval (default 60s IIRC). ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html