MBOX-Line: From DCroke at shoretel.com  Thu Feb 17 09:55:41 2011
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Darren Croke <DCroke@shoretel.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:45 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] detecting new messages
Message-ID: <2CA53ECF4094AB4D8BDC7C60A75B1C02110BEAFC52@hawaii.shoretel.com>

My apologies if this question has been asked before (I assume it has) but I'm not having any luck finding an answer in the archives.

I'm struggling to rationalize the following two statements in RFC 3501:


Section 2.3.1.1 states: Note: The next unique identifier value is intended to provide a means for a client to determine whether any messages have been delivered to the mailbox since the previous time it checked this value.



Section 6.3.10 states: The STATUS command MUST NOT be used as a "check for new messages in the selected mailbox" operation (refer to sections 7<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-7>, 7.3.1<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-7.3.1>, and 7.3.2<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-7.3.2> for more information about the proper method for new message checking).



If both these statements are true, what is the recommended method to retrieve the next unique identifier value from a server?



Thanks,

Darren



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