Proposed "IDLE" extension comment

[Mark Keasling <[e-mail]>]

Hi Barry,

Can a server send additional responses between the time the client issues
DONE and the OK response is returned if a final check for expunges, exists,
alerts or whatever doesn't take 10 minutes (ie. can be done reasonably
quickly)?  The draft implies that this can't happen with the statement:

   The IDLE command is terminated by the receipt of a "DONE" continuation 
   from the client; such response satisfies the server's continuation 
-> request.  At that point, the server MUST immediately send the tagged 
-> response to the IDLE command and prepare to process other commands.  

and therefore MUST NOT do anything else.

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:55:27 -0500, Barry Leiba <[e-mail]> wrote...
> Please take a look at
> 
>    ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-leiba-imap-idle-00.txt
> 

Looks good.  Slightly different than what I saw discussed where IDLE
was terminated by the next command.  However, it solves a possible race
condition where the server sends an expunge at the same time a client
issues a FETCH command.

Mark Keasling