MBOX-Line: From guenther+imap at sendmail.com  Mon May 21 03:02:56 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Philip Guenther <guenther+imap@sendmail.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:39 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] LIST + STATUS
In-Reply-To: <1179521035.32181.1029.camel@hurina>
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Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.64.0705210402190.19541@skarrin.mho.net>

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Are there any drafts / non-standard implementations for returning
> mailbox list and STATUS replies for multiple mailboxes with a single
> command? Such as:
>
> 1 LIST () "" "%" RETURN (STATUS (UNSEEN MESSAGES))

What problem are you trying to solve?  Making it easier for a client to 
poll a large number of mailboxes is only a good idea if we want to 
encourage polling for changes.  Instead of doing that, shouldn't we work 
towards providing a way for the client to request notifications from the 
server for particular mailbox events?  That's the direction the lemonade 
working group is working on, as described in at least these 
internet-drafts:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-lemonade-msgevent-02.txt 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gulbrandsen-imap-notify-03


Philip Guenther
Sendmail, Inc.

