Protocol Action: IMAP4 IDLE command to Proposed Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Thu, 12 June 1997 14:41 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: IMAP4 IDLE command to Proposed Standard
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:37:33 -0400
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  The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "IMAP4 IDLE command"
  <draft-leiba-imap-idle-02.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document
  is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person
  is Harald Alvestrand and Keith Moore.


Technical Summary

  The IMAP4 basic protocol offers a limited asynchronous notification
  facility: whenever the user does a command towards the server, the
  server may tell the user of events that have occured, but only until
  the command completes.

  This extension introduces an IDLE command that lets the server go on
  informing the user until the user declares itself no longer
  interested; the typical usage will be that an IMAP client will
  issue the IDLE command whenever it is not actively doing anything.

Working Group Summary

  The protocol has been reviewed on the mailing list of the former
  IMAP WG, and there was consensus that this was a good idea, and
  that the spec is solid.

  There were no Last Call objections and only one requested
  clarification, which has been done.

Protocol Quality

  The specification has been reviewed for the IESG by Harald Alvestrand

Protocol Action: IMAP4 IDLE command to Proposed S… The IESG