3 Responses to “Apple Mail’s missing IMAP IDLE feature”

1. Matt says:
   December 17th, 2005 at 12:14 pm

   Yes, the lack of this feature is quite unfortunate. I have been forced to switch to thunderbird as well. But I missed Mail.app’s search capability so much, I found a command-line replacement called mairix, and managed to integrate it with roundcube:
   RoundCube Search Hack

2. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » New beta of Thunderbird released. says:
   December 26th, 2005 at 8:37 pm

   [...] Filters for creating a Global Inbox. Compared to Mail.app, its IMAP implementation and support for composing in HTML using the Gecko engine are better without a doubt. [...]

3. Michael Rothwell says:
   September 25th, 2006 at 1:35 am

   I’ve made a plugin (mailbundle) for Mail.app that support IDLE for IMAP accounts.
   http://fivepoundsflax.blogspot.com/2006/09/idle-support-for-imap-accounts-in.html

Leave a Reply