Comments on: IMAP-IDLE Plugin for Mail.app updated

By: david

david — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:33:08 +0000

You say that “This is obviously a much more intelligent way of handling the polling process.”

Consider that IDLE requires a connection to be maintained to the mail server. This is fine for small installations, but lots of open connections can bog down a mail server with thousands of users. In that case, depending on other circumstances, IDLE may not be “more intelligent.”

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:05:45 +0000

Yes, it’s pretty good, isn’t it?! :)

By: gerry

gerry — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:38:31 +0000

Awesome, awesome, awesome. Works perfectly (so far) with my ISP’s IMAP server.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:47:26 +0000

The plugin does not issue any mailbox or message manipulation commands, so I’m not sure how it would cause that interesting behavior.

It logs in, requests server capabilities, selects the INBOX, and requests IDLE mode. Do you get any funny messages in your console log?

By: BOK

BOK — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:52:00 +0000

[I am unable to comment on the site of the plugin-author, hence here]

I tested this plugin once again, but I would like to see an IMAP-plugin that obeys my default folders: when I use this plugin “Trash” becomes “Deleted Messages” and “Sent” becomes “Sent Messages”.
This happens on my Dovecot POP3-IMAP-server and also confuses Roundcube webmail…
Is this something I’m overlooking or is it Mail.app or…?

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:11:38 +0000

Never mind… I read the old article. Bummer.

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:07:16 +0000

Any result with dot mac? I haven’t been able to get this one to work with dot mac.