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

Dave Cridland <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
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That implies you'd expect flag changes to be sent during other commands,
like NOOP etc? I thought Gmail never sent any unsolicited flag changes at
all - am I wrong?


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Brandon Long <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, gmail currently only notifies of new messages and expunged messages
> during idle.
>
> Brandon
> On Jan 23, 2014 1:26 PM, "Rick Sanders" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Is it true that Gmail does not send notification to a client which is
>> idling on a mailbox?
>>
>> I ran across that while testing some code that detects flag changes using
>> IDLE and I was surprised that I did not get anything from Gmail.
>>
>> Google searches suggest that's the case.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rick
>>
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