Re: [Imap-protocol] Re: Suspend/Restore feature proposal

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Michael M Slusarz <[email protected]>wrote:

> Quoting Brandon Long <[email protected]>:
>
>  Have you considered not re-establishing a connection every 10s?  This is a
>> connected protocol, not http.
>>
>
> From a webmail perspective: if you could tell me how to maintain a
> consistent IMAP connection using nothing more than current IMAP commands
> and an out-of-the box HTTP server, I would be ecstatic.  That's what users
> demand our software works with, so that's what we need to code for.
>
> I don't have the UI information in front of me right now, but a user
> initiating an action every 10 seconds, at least when managing messages in a
> mailbox (loading a message to read, deleting, copying/moving, reporting as
> spam), seems like a reasonable estimate for discussion purposes.  That's
> where I got the 10 second value from.
>

And this seems to imply, to me, that you'd be better off with the
resume/disconnected session stuff from p-imap/lemonade that I pointed to
before.

After all, you are likely to need to do at least a select of the same
folder for most of those new connections.

Brandon

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