Synchronizing mailbox list
Alexey Melnikov <mel@demo.ru> Mon, 01 September 1997 04:11 UTC
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From: Alexey Melnikov <mel@demo.ru>
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Subject: Synchronizing mailbox list
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I have a question about IMAP disconnected mode. When the client reconnect to server before synchronizing the contents of mailboxes it needs to synchronize the list of all mailboxes (some mailboxes was removed and some new appeared). If user has many mailboxes and network connection is too slow (modem 2400 as Mark Crispin suggested) it is unpractical to perform 'LIST "" *' (even 'LIST "" %' in some situations). Do you have any proposals how to synchronize mailbox list without performing 'LIST'? (BTW Communicator performs 'LIST "" *' every time it connects IMAP server) I know that it is possible to use SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE/LSUB to look for "interesting mailboxes". But this is not the case. Client can check that subscribed mailbox was deleted when it get \NoSelect flag in LSUB responce. But how it can look for new mailboxes? Excuse me if the question was already asked. I was looking in IMAP mailing list archive with out success.
- Synchronizing mailbox list Alexey Melnikov