On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:37:11PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: > One thing that would be nice, that pretty much no webmail does, is to > keep a stateful connection open all the time (or at least some of the > time) instead of creating tons of short-lived connections that ask the > same stuff over and over again. With a stateful connection you could > basically run IDLE and wait for changes there instead of asking all the > time "is there new mail?" "is there new mail now?" "what about now?". >
AlphaMail has this: http://alphamail.sourceforge.net/ It's a webmail written in Perl that uses a C++ "middleware" which keeps a persistent connection to the backend IMAP server. But I'm afraid the project is dead... Geert
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