MBOX-Line: From dave at cridland.net  Fri Jan 24 08:07:26 2014
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:52 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Gmail and IDLE flags changes
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	<52E18829.40305@earthlink.net>
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That implies you'd expect flag changes to be sent during other commands,
like NOOP etc? I thought Gmail never sent any unsolicited flag changes at
all - am I wrong?


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Brandon Long <blong@google.com> wrote:

> Yes, gmail currently only notifies of new messages and expunged messages
> during idle.
>
> Brandon
> On Jan 23, 2014 1:26 PM, "Rick Sanders" <rfs9999@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Is it true that Gmail does not send notification to a client which is
>> idling on a mailbox?
>>
>> I ran across that while testing some code that detects flag changes using
>> IDLE and I was surprised that I did not get anything from Gmail.
>>
>> Google searches suggest that's the case.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rick
>>
>> --
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