From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77818 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP and IDLE... Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:43:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300275822 21433 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2011 11:43:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:43:42 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26138@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Mar 16 12:43:38 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 1Pzp8a-0004C7-Mn for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:43:37 +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 1Pzp8S-0000Ja-3v; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:43:28 -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 1Pzp8P-0000JE-W6 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:43:25 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzp8C-0003XM-57 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:43:25 -0500 Original-Received: from linuxpal.mit.edu ([18.62.1.14]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzp8B-0003IP-5D for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:43:11 +0100 Original-Received: by linuxpal.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9545) id 7B1BD16072; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:43:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Hashcash: 1:20:110316:ding@gnus.org::4woFUv+XNP/Yk7br:00007yni In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:31:00 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77818 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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. True, but there's another situation where it is very useful. I split on the server into about 100 IMAP folders, at delivery time. INBOX is special, as its mail that (in theory) I want to see promptly, and the rest I only look at when I'm in a mail-processing mode. So in this case too, IDLE on just INBOX is not only useful but what I'd want to configure if I could have IDLE on any subset. Mail.app (not that I want to hold it up as a paragon of virtue, because top-posting and sending long lines are both antisocial) also downloads messages from non-INBOX in the background. It seems to be a bug that one can't turn that off, but I wonder if it's just doing it every few minutes, and IDLEing on INBOX the rest of the time. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (NetBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk2Aok4ACgkQH9p66AmO1g6taACfbUaWPzU7J+ri0LTpkSbhk6A/ lisAn1fZ5LGqYxjCcYERAzEBGA4+waYS =fat+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--