Re: [Evolution] 2.92.91 imap-idle

[randall <randall songshu org>]

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 11:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 16:38 +0100, randall wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > not sure if i'm on the correct list here or if there's a seperate one
> > for the devs,
> >
> > anyways.. im interested in the improved IMAP support
> >
> > iâm running 2.29.91 on Ubuntu 10.04 beta from ppa at
> > https://launchpad.net/~francesco-marella/+archive/unstable-evolution
> >
> > till so far it seams to work nicely (no crashes) in my daily usage and
> > iâm testing it to see if i can use it as a Thunderbird alternative.
> >
> > iâm using it as an imap client to a zimbra server so the IMAP-IDLE
> > functionality is what i am looking for.
> >
> > imap-idle seems to work, sort off, i donât have to press the send
> > receive button but i still need to refresh the inbox folder by selecting
> > another folder and then select my inbox again.
>
> Or you could enable the periodic check in
> Preferences-><account>->Receiving Options.
>
> poc
>
> _________________________________

uhhmm,

well yes, but that means i could also use pop3 and choose the option to
leave a copy on the server ;)

the benefit of the IDLE part in IMAP-IDLE is that you don't need to
send-receive and recheck all of your folders when you have server based
filtering.