[imapfilter-devel] IMAPFilter 2.1

[William Faulk]

On 11/25/2009 03:33 PM, Lefteris Chatzimparmpas wrote:
>
> currently imapfilter's IDLE returns as soon as a new
> message has been reported by the mail server, otherwise it will
> basically wait forever

True.  I was giving a complicated example.  If it pops out at the first 
EXISTS, then that makes it that much easier.  You still need to watch 
for untagged EXISTS and EXPUNGEs while not in IDLE, though.

Ultimately, what I'm getting at is that it would be nice to be able to 
run filters against only newly arrived messages, which would 
significantly optimize runtime and network bandwidth.  This is actually 
what my further comments were going to be about.  I'll start a new thread.

-Bitt