[Imap-protocol] idle and multi-mailbox access

[Alexey Melnikov]

DINH Viêt Hoà wrote:


>Hello,

>

>I was possibly planning to implement IDLE on my IMAP client prototype

>(http://www.etpanX.org) to know (mostly) real-time the count of unread

>messages on the mailboxes but I fell on the following problem:

>Theorically, if we suppose that any mail can be delivered to any

>mailbox (especially because of server-side filters), you have to show

>the the user for all subscribed mailboxes the status of the mailbox.

>So that I have to make a connection for each mailbox to request IDLE

>from the server.

>I have more than 10 mailboxes.

>In practice since many servers won't allow that much connections

>(because of resource usage), this is not possible to do this. Many

>servers will limit to 3 connections.

>Then, use of IDLE is not possible to do this.

>

>The other possibility is to use the old-poll-sheme using STATUS.

>

>is the following draft supposed to solve that problem ?

>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lemonade-imap-notify-01

>  

>

Yes.