MBOX-Line: From benny at diku.dk  Fri Jan 24 04:17:32 2014
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Benny =?utf-8?q?Kj=C3=A6r?= Nielsen <benny@diku.dk>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:52 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Gmail and IDLE flags changes
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On 24 Jan 2014, at 11:50, Alexey Melnikov wrote:

>> On 23 Jan 2014, at 21:32, Brandon Long <blong@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, gmail currently only notifies of new messages and expunged 
>> messages during idle.
>
> Can you add an IMAP capability (or can an existing one be used) so 
> that client can detect this behaviour?

I second that! I've played with a simple workaround for Gmail in which I 
regularly check for flag changes when in the IDLE state, but I haven't 
enabled it because I don't like that the workaround is not automatically 
disabled when/if Gmail IDLE is improved.

I've also been wondering: The RFC on IMAP IDLE does not state it as a 
requirement that servers must (or even should) report flag changes when 
in the IDLE state. Has anyone done any experiments showing whether or 
not this is a widespread IMAP server limitation (beyond Gmail)?

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Benny
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