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

Andras Mantia amantia at kde.org
Tue Oct 23 17:26:56 BST 2012


Kevin Ottens wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 October 2012 17:47:21 Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
>> And as far as I know, Cyrus 2.4 already supports NOTIFY.
> 
> Are you sure about that? I don't see it on their list of protocol specs:
> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.4.16/specs.php
> 
>> With Dovecot soon also supporting it, I think that's a good enough
>> coverage and in the end it is not like other servers are stopped from
>> implementing it, as well.
> 
> Exactly my opinion, in particular if it turns out Cyrus supports it or is
> about to support it too.

I don't see why we couldn't support both ways. If the server claims to have 
NOTIFY support use that, otherwise use IDLE. Except of internals and the 
warning of limitation in case of IDLE, the user should not notice anything. 
The config dialog could still remain the same.

Andras
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