From: Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: sluggish IMAP updating?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:43:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <smu646ii5wp.fsf@linuxpal.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myzuxna4.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Thu, 24 May 2007 17:18:59 +0200")
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
>> I see your point, but the RFC says "MUST NOT" use STATUS on a selected
>> mailbox to check for new mail.
>
> RFC 2060 didn't, and nnimap was written for that RFC. Ideally, someone
> could revise nnimap to make it more modern.
sorry - didn't mean to be critical of the code as written, just that
given that the spec has changed it is now not the right behavior.
> Alternatively use something like the IDLE extension. Or issue a NOOP.
IDLE is probably the coolest thing - that seems to be what most clients
use.
> Heads up: if anyone notices that nnimap has become significantly slower
> and/or some new IMAP is showing up that can be traced to this change,
> let us know!
Thanks for the analysis and making the change - we'll see what happens.
Greg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-24 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-23 17:34 Greg Troxel
2007-05-24 7:13 ` Gabor Z. Papp
2007-05-24 11:55 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-05-24 12:11 ` Greg Troxel
2007-05-24 15:00 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-05-24 15:13 ` Greg Troxel
2007-05-24 15:18 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-05-24 15:43 ` Greg Troxel [this message]
2007-05-24 13:50 ` Greg Troxel
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