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A potential fix for Mail.app and IMAP problems
Authored by: Beernd on Dec 08, '03 02:47:23PM

No, that's a feature, not a bug! IMAP has the nice feature of unsollicitedly giving notice to a client when something changes, like when new mail arrives, but for that the connection needs to stay open. That way one doesn't need to ask the server every n minutes if there's new mail.

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A potential fix for Mail.app and IMAP problems
Authored by: sitharus on Dec 08, '03 03:44:56PM

Not for mail. This is not part of the IMAP spec, it's an extension called IDLE, it only works if the client supports it. From analysing my logs, mail does not support it.

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