# [fetchmail] Patch for IMAP idling where idling is unsupported

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:32:31 -0400

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    Chris Boyle <fetchmail-friends@cmb.is-a-geek.org>:
    > Here's a patch I've written: where IDLE is unavailable, it uses periodic
    > NOOP commands instead (every 28 seconds). Important behavioural change:
    > the option "idle" will now always result in *some* form of idle. I think
    > I read somewhere that some servers will unilaterally send status updates
    > if you just hold the connection open, i.e. NOOPs would be unnecessary,
    > but that doesn't seem to be the case anywhere I've tried. In any case,
    > this patch copes with updates both as a response to the NOOPs and
    > unilaterally sent between them. It functions exactly like normal idling
    > (N.B. like normal idling, it is single-folder only), and hopefully
    > includes all the appropriate changes to the documentation. Enjoy. :-)
    >
    > http://cmb.is-a-geek.org/downloads/fetchmail-6.2.2+noopidle.diff.gz

    Nice work.  This will be in 6.2.4.
    --
    		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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