From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77851 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP and IDLE... Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:34:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87fwqmap94.fsf@randomsample.de> References: <87hbb3xifn.fsf@gandalf.home.thebuble.org> <87y64eudgz.fsf@gandalf.home.thebuble.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300300526 11727 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2011 18:35:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:35:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26170@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Mar 16 19:35:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PzvZ4-0003We-Ea for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:35:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PzvYw-0003Zm-Jy; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PzvYu-0003ZQ-Vg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PzvYq-0005Gz-Kk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from v3-1008.vxen.de ([79.140.41.8]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PzvYo-00041S-A9 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:35:06 +0100 Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-035-228.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.35.228] helo=spaten) by v3-1008.vxen.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PzvYn-00015K-E5 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:35:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87y64eudgz.fsf@gandalf.home.thebuble.org> (Olivier Sirven's message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:28:28 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77851 Archived-At: Olivier Sirven writes: > On 2011-03-16 18:37:54, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: >>> That being said it would be quite useful to be able to specify the list >>> of IMAP folders that needs an IDLE command to be issued from time to >>> time. >> >> You can only IDLE on one mail box per connection. It's a pretty stupid >> limitation in the IMAP protocol, but... > > too bad Well, you can use multiple connections; that's what other clients are doing (to much dismay of some server administrators...). -David