Quoting Eric Wong <normalper...@yhbt.net>:
Hi, I'm not sure if this is some throttling/DoS protection or a bug. I
didn't see notice anything like it mentioned looking at the NEWS file
from hg, this is on 2.1.7 on Debian stable.
I have a client doing IDLE on INBOX.vomiteer. When individual messages
arrive with some time interval in between them, I get EXISTS events for
each message as expected.
However, when I store a bunch of messages at once (via tag + mass copy
in mutt on a fast-ish connection), I get a few EXISTS events (sometimes
one, sometimes two) even though I copied a lot of new messages over.
I expected to get an EXISTS event for each message which arrived, but
perhaps there's some sort of DoS/throttling mechanism.
This is correct IMAP behavior. EXISTS is defined as enumerating the
current number of messages in the mailbox. Nowhere in the RFC does it
say that a separate EXISTS is needed for every message added.
michael
