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From: Mark Crispin <mrc+imap@panda.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:45 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Fwd: iOS IMAP IDLE (Standard "Push Email")
	Deficiency, Explanation?
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On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I often force a refresh by marking some existing message unseen and then
> back again to seen while waiting for a message that I know is going to
> arrive, clicking this key combination often enough until it I see the
> mail. So it is possible to know, although that assumes the server
> notices new messages during flag changes.

Alpine's next message command while at the end of the mailbox does an IMAP
NOOP command which ought to refresh without the side effects of message
flagging.

A server is required to notice new messages (and flag changes) in the
selected mailbox as part of any IMAP command.  NOOP is not the command to
notice new messages; NOOP is the command to do nothing other than notice
new messages and flag changes.

-- Mark --

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