Re: IMAP IDLE command

"Tim K. (Gmane)" <[email protected]> Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:27:43 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> Last time we thought about adding it we decided that the benefits were 
> outweighed by the problems it causes. NAT boxes often have aggressive 
> timeout behavior. If the mail client is sitting IDLEing waiting for 
> new mail notification it will be considered inactive by an intervening 
> NAT box and the connection may be squashed. More frequent polling for 
> new mail refreshes the NAT's timeout timer.
Why not add it as an option per IMAP server (disabled by default for 
example)? The reason above didn't stop Thunderbird to provide it as an 
option. If it works for some users, then fine, if not there's no loss of 
functionality.

Thanks.

Tim

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