Hi Timo, great hearing from you again, hope the exams went well :)
On 2010-04-13 19:01 UTC Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 9.4.2010, at 9.31, Patrick Nagel wrote: > > 2) Enhancing dovecot's Virtual plugin, so virtual mailboxes do not > > only get updated on select and expunge, but also when anything > > changes that affects the set of messages shown in the virtual > > mailbox. I guess that would have an impact on performance, and > > thus should be optional. > > Virtual plugin does already work like that. Although there's a bug > where messages don't get removed from mailbox always: > > - virtual: removed messages don't get expunged unless EXPUNGE is > issued in same session. otherwise they get forgotten and never > removed. Oh, I see. I'll give it another try then, I believe I tried this, but never got notified of new mails in the virtual mailbox through the IMAP IDLE connection. > And NOTIFY isn't implemented yet mainly because it would be > annoyingly expensive (as is virtual mailbox when it's created from > many real mailboxes). I've been planning on implementing mailbox > list indexes (or they already are implemented, but they're buggy) > that would make this much cheaper. Basically NOTIFY could just keep > watching for changes to dovecot.list.index.log file, and then read > what mailbox had changed and how and notify client about it, > possibly without even opening the mailbox itself. That sounds like a good plan - basically having "logwatch" on all IMAP operations :) I'd be happy to test once you have anything to be tested (just need to find a MUA other than telnet+brain that has IMAP NOTIFY implemented first ;) ). Patrick. -- Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4
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