Re: IMAP

On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ka-rlis Repsons wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > not knowing much about IMAP, I'm still going to set up Dovecot that
> > way -- what I wanted to know is about search: how can dovecot's
> > indexing feature be taken advantage of, when a search is performed
> > with kmail?
>
> I too would be interested in knowing a little more about the way
> KMail handles IMAP mailboxes. The KMail Handbook doesn't hold a lot
> of detailed information on the topic.

As Kevin pointed out you have to ask specific questions.


> From my experience, different e-mail software can behave in
> significantly different manners when dealing with IMAP servers. In
> terms of observable effects, indexing can be affected as Kärlis
> mentions. "Rules"/"Filters"/"Message Rules" can work differently ;
> sometimes the message count is incorrectly reflected in parts of the
> UI. Much of what I've seen seems to stem from what is retrieved
> (headers/full messages), when it is retrieved and how it is stored
> locally.
>
> Many clients also seem to imply by their settings panels that a
> regular mail-check can be scheduled on IMAP mailboxes, which, unless
> I'm mistaken, irrelevant to the way the protocol works (a connection
> is maintained with the server, and new mail is pushed to the client
> upon delivery).

This isn't entirely correct. What is pushed to the client is a 
notification that new mail has arrived. The new messages still have to 
be downloaded explicitly by the client.


Regards,
Ingo

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