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Re: Is imap+procmail possible?



Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> What happens if a new message is inserted into an open IMAP folder?
> Is the imap connection terminated by the imapd and then reopened by
> the client?

A simple server just hang up when that happen, multi-client aware
servers just inform the client when a new mail arrives in the open
mailbox.

Nnimap's imap-library pick the notice up but nnimap can't do anything
useful with it -- all communication between gnus and nnimap is
initiated by gnus.