[dev] Exciting find

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Wed Sep 17 19:17:05 UTC 2008


Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Tramping through the IMAP RFCs (there are many), this looks very promising:
> http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=4551 (CONDRESTORE)
> http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=5162 (QRESYNC)
>
> Quick synopsis: an easy way to determine if our local cache needs  
> updating.  Dovecot, as of 1.2, supports these extensions.
>
> Another nice extension - LIST-EXTENDED:
> http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=5258
>
> This one allows us to get (at a minimum) a listing of unseen  
> messages in all folders with a single command rather than multiple  
> STATUS commands.  Some major IMAP servers already support this  
> (Dovecot 1.1 does).

Very cool. Looking forward to seeing this in the Imap_Client  
implementation. :)

-chuck


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