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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've been sceptical to supporting IDLE before, since you can only IDLE
> on one mail box at a time.  But it just occurred to me that if you're
> doing client-side splitting, just idling on the INBOX would suffice.

FWIW, this would be somewhat useful to me, although I'd like to be able
to pick the one mailbox that it IDLEs on. The usefulness of the
automatic updating would depend on how smooth it ran.

I'd also be very interested to see if this ends up fixing my bug with
incoming new mail being marked read without me seeing it :).