Oswald Buddenhagen <o...@kde.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 01:54:51PM +0100, Davide Gerhard wrote:
>> Is there a simple way to add this function (permanently?) in the code?
>> (yes, I have already seen that this topic is in the todo list :)
>> Some suggestion to start?
>> 
> i haven't really thought about it yet.
>
> i presume you first need to implement timer support in the main loop -
> there was a recent thread where i uttered some ideas how to do that.
> next you need to add something to main().
>
> some more things to consider:
> - do we do real daemon mode (with detaching the tty, forking into the
>   background and everything) or do we just keep running in the
>   foreground and let the user wrap it appropriately?
> - do we want it to be timer-based only? what about using IMAP IDLE
>   (nasty, because it needs a connection per watched mailbox (though i
>   think there is an IMAP extension which enables more efficient
>   handling))? maybe there should be a command socket to which you can
>   write channel/box names to trigger fetches (this would actually fit my
>   setup, as i have a separate notification channel from the server)?

imap notify?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5465

-- 
Nikola

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