[Kde-pim] [PATCH] imap resource: Support multiple IDLE folders.

[Kevin Ottens]

On Monday 22 October 2012 17:48:21 Rüdiger Sonderfeld wrote:
> This certainly is a problem. But I think it's a problem the users and
> sysadmins have to solve. Imap server software such as dovecot or courier has
> max connections settings for each user and this should prevent users from
> watching too many folders. We are not putting servers at risk here and
> sysadmins already have the tools to protect themselves. And other imap
> clients such as Offlineimap already support watching several folders.
> 
> We certainly should keep the settings in the Advanced-part of KMail and warn
> users that opening too many connections might cause problems.

Not really a pleasant experience unfortunately, no way for the user to know 
which mailbox will end up being monitored or not and when...
 
> >  2) Implement the support for NOTIFY instead. It's definitely the better
> > option to me, but it's clearly getting further away from your existing
> > patch. It also requires investigating which servers support it of course.
> 
> I hope that NOTIFY will replace IDLE in the future. But it is not available
> at the moment and so far I only know about Dovecot planning to support it.
> That's why I don't think it's an option for now.

OTOH it is a chicken and egg problem, if clients don't ask for it there's no 
incentive for server implementations. The fact that dovecot is going to 
implement it is IMO good enough to pursue that route. Yes it'll take time to 
get deployed but we'll be ready and no nasty hack in the codebase (rotation or 
several idling connections).

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud patron of KDE, http://www.kdab.com
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