Re: IMAP and IDLE...

[Olivier Sirven <the.slaa@gmail.com>]

On 2011-03-16 12:31:00, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> But here's my idea: We could open an extra connection to every IMAP
> server (that we're doing client splits on).  We issue an IDLE on the
> INBOX. If the connection goes away, we don't do anything asynchronously.
> But otherwise, every time we get a new message in the INBOX, we run it
> through the normal splitting methods and update the group buffer.
>
> Since this will mostly be splitting one single message at a time, and we
> only download the headers to do the splitting, this can probably be done
> without hanging Emacs too badly.

It would be a great feature to have (at least for me). 

I receive about 5K/6K mails a day in my IMAP INBOX and it's a real pain
each time I refresh my group buffer. During work days I do it manually
(maybe once every 10mn) and I have to wait for 1mn before being able to
use my emacs again. I coded an autochecker to do it automatically every
5mn that I can easily launch when I need to because after 2 days without
any refresh I would have to wait for 5mn before being able to use emacs
again (that time drastically went down with the new nnimap
implementation though).

So if I can just drop that macro and have an async gnus checking my
emails and doing the splitting word everytime I receive a new email and
leaving my emacs usable it would be just the best thing in the world ;)

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.

--
Olivier