IDLE support for Apple Mail
▁ sep 12 2007
Cool! mads pointed me to an IDLE implementation for Mail.app:
IMAP-IDLE is a plugin for Apple’s Mail.app 2.x. (Tiger version). It opens a second connection for each of your IMAP accounts, requests IDLE mode, and listens for messages from the server. When it receives a message that indicates new mail has arrived, it asks Mail.app to check for new mail. In this way, you get “instant” notification of new mail, rather than needing to wait for the polling interval (e.g., 5 minutes or whatever you have it set to). I have Mail set to “manual check” and let IMAP-IDLE tell it to check for new mail.via →
Luckily for all us Mail.app users, it seems that it will be a part of the new Mail.app in Leopard.