Subject: Reopen folder command when using IMAP?

From: Richard Kooijman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 13:23:07 +0100 (MET)

Hi,

I am using Pine to read my mail through IMAP.
When I am accessing my mailboxes from 2 machines at once, IMAP is 
signalling the older connections that its mailbox has become READONLY. So 
far so good, but when the last/newest connection is deleted again the older 
connection doesn't restart its folder automatically again, neither did I 
find a command to reopen a folder. Only quitting Pine and restarting it 
suffices. 

Problem is that I sometimes fail to mention the (READONLY) status 
indicator and so I am assuming I just don't receive any mail. But when I 
quit Pine and restart it again, there may have been numereous messages 
waiting for me. Ideally, I would like to run Pine 24 hours a day. I use
screen (virtual terminal handler) sessions which I share between work and 
home (by detaching and attaching at the other site) so I alsways can 
continue exactly where I left off. But sometimes I just start a pine 
session to read mail but that screws up the already running instance in 
my screen sessions.

I hope I expressed myself clear enough and I would like to know if 
somebody has some hints for me?

Richard.

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From: Richard Kooijman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 10:52:31 +0100 (MET)

Hi,

I just started to make a client for disconnected access using IMAP2bis
when I stumbled into the draft RFC "IMAP4 Disconnected Access". Are there
people who already tried this before me (using IMAP2[bis] of course)? If
yes, could you share your copy with us, since that would save me a lot of
work? 

Thanks,

Richard.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 08:49:19 -0700 (PDT)

> yes, could you share your copy with us, since that would save me a lot of

Richard,
Versions of IMAP prior to IMAP4 lack an essential ingredient for 
disconnected operation, namely the "Unique IDentifier" for messages
that persists across sessions.

To date, Sun's ROAM product is the only one I know about that uses IMAP 
disconnected operation, and it was developed in parallel with the IMAP4 
spec, so it doesn't match the spec exactly yet (but will be brought into
full compliance.)

CMU already has their IMAP4 server in late Beta testing, and we will have 
one before too long, so I can't think of any reason not to base your 
project on IMAP4.  (IMAP4 is already an Internet Proposed Standard.)

-teg