<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> [fetchmail] Patch for IMAP idling where idling is unsupported </TITLE> <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:esr%40thyrsus.com"> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="007705.html"> <LINK REL="Next" HREF="007706.html"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <H1>[fetchmail] Patch for IMAP idling where idling is unsupported </H1> <B>Eric S. Raymond </B> <A HREF="mailto:esr%40thyrsus.com" TITLE="[fetchmail] Patch for IMAP idling where idling is unsupported">esr@thyrsus.com </A><BR> <I>Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:32:31 -0400</I> <P><UL> <LI> Previous message: <A HREF="007705.html">[fetchmail] Patch for IMAP idling where idling is unsupported </A></li> <LI> Next message: <A HREF="007706.html">[fetchmail] [PATCH] Debian bug #156592 again + update </A></li> <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> <a href="date.html#7713">[ date ]</a> <a href="thread.html#7713">[ thread ]</a> <a href="subject.html#7713">[ subject ]</a> <a href="author.html#7713">[ author ]</a> </LI> </UL> <HR> <!--beginarticle--> <PRE>Chris Boyle <<A HREF="mailto:fetchmail-friends@cmb.is-a-geek.org">fetchmail-friends@cmb.is-a-geek.org</A>>: ><i> Here's a patch I've written: where IDLE is unavailable, it uses periodic </I>><i> NOOP commands instead (every 28 seconds). Important behavioural change: </I>><i> the option "idle" will now always result in *some* form of idle. I think </I>><i> I read somewhere that some servers will unilaterally send status updates </I>><i> if you just hold the connection open, i.e. NOOPs would be unnecessary, </I>><i> but that doesn't seem to be the case anywhere I've tried. In any case, </I>><i> this patch copes with updates both as a response to the NOOPs and </I>><i> unilaterally sent between them. It functions exactly like normal idling </I>><i> (N.B. like normal idling, it is single-folder only), and hopefully </I>><i> includes all the appropriate changes to the documentation. Enjoy. :-) </I>><i> </I>><i> <A HREF="http://cmb.is-a-geek.org/downloads/fetchmail-6.2.2+noopidle.diff.gz">http://cmb.is-a-geek.org/downloads/fetchmail-6.2.2+noopidle.diff.gz</A> </I> Nice work. This will be in 6.2.4. -- <a href="<A HREF="http://www.catb.org/~esr/"">http://www.catb.org/~esr/"</A>>Eric S. Raymond</a> </PRE> <!--endarticle--> <HR> <P><UL> <!--threads--> <LI> Previous message: <A HREF="007705.html">[fetchmail] Patch for IMAP idling where idling is unsupported </A></li> <LI> Next message: <A HREF="007706.html">[fetchmail] [PATCH] Debian bug #156592 again + update </A></li> <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> <a href="date.html#7713">[ date ]</a> <a href="thread.html#7713">[ thread ]</a> <a href="subject.html#7713">[ subject ]</a> <a href="author.html#7713">[ author ]</a> </LI> </UL> </body></html>