Subject: Configure Pine to use same IMAP connection for all mailboxes?

From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:26:08 -0500 (EST)

I have Pine configured to access multiple incoming mail folders on my
IMAP server.  Being the system manager of the IMAP server (<grin>), I can
review the connection logs.  I notice that Pine seems to be establishing
a new connection (including login) each time I move between folders.
Is there a way to cut-down on this, so that Pine logs in only once and
uses the same connection regardless of which folder I'm looking at?
The current method seems like something of a network waste.

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    Steve Coile           P a t r i o t  N e t      Systems Engineering
 [email-masked]      Patriot Computer Group        (703) 277-7737

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:43:25 -0800 (PST)

Steve,
Pine 4.x will take advantage of the STATUS command in the IMAP4rev1 spec
to cut down on the number of separate sessions.  This should help quite a
bit; however, it will always be necessary to open an additional stream
when a second folder is actually opened, as the INBOX stream is always
kept open.   (And IMAP sessions can only have one folder open at a time;
i.e. it relies on TCP's multiplexing abilities, rather than defining
--reinventing-- such capabilities in the application protocol.)

It's true that this does result in some additional authentication
overhead, however.

-teg