Re: IMAP IDLE support?

Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Dec 2017 07:56:07 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.wanderlust.general.japanese
Organization	Teamcool Networks
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 01:51:20 -0700,
Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 09:38:27AM +0100, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I'm a newcomer to Wanderlust, trying it mostly because I was under the
> > impression that it has the best IMAP support among emacs MUAs. However when
> > I'm in "summary" mode I must manually hit 's' (sync) in order to check for new
> > messages. Is polling the only way? Isn't IMAP IDLE supported?
> 
> No. 
> 
> I guess your only option is wl-biff-check-folder-list:
> 
> <http://wanderlust.github.io/wl-docs/wl.html#Biff>
> 
> -- 
> Herbert

Server side IMAP IDLE wastes bandwidth.  Heh.  The biff folder check
time is configurable though and works just dandy ;D

Ciao--