Re: [Imap-protocol] Gmail and IDLE flags changes

"Benny Kjær Nielsen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 24 Jan 2014, at 11:50, Alexey Melnikov wrote:

>> On 23 Jan 2014, at 21:32, Brandon Long <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, gmail currently only notifies of new messages and expunged 
>> messages during idle.
>
> Can you add an IMAP capability (or can an existing one be used) so 
> that client can detect this behaviour?

I second that! I've played with a simple workaround for Gmail in which I 
regularly check for flag changes when in the IDLE state, but I haven't 
enabled it because I don't like that the workaround is not automatically 
disabled when/if Gmail IDLE is improved.

I've also been wondering: The RFC on IMAP IDLE does not state it as a 
requirement that servers must (or even should) report flag changes when 
in the IDLE state. Has anyone done any experiments showing whether or 
not this is a widespread IMAP server limitation (beyond Gmail)?

-- 
Benny
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