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Apple Mail’s missing IMAP IDLE feature

Aaron Marks explains what the IDLE feature should do under the IMAP4 protocol, celebrates how well it works in Thunderbird and laments the fact that Mail.app doesn’t use it.

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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

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