Re: IMAP IDLE Support

A quick search to http://search.cpan.org with "IMAP" and "IDLE" in the search box tells you what you want to know: now, and forever. What happened when you tried that? Please try not to be lazy: it ruins this place for all of us.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re^2: IMAP IDLE Support by stu42j (Sexton) on Nov 26, 2007 at 21:25 UTC
My most sincere apologies. I probably should have made my message a little more verbose. I did, of course, search CPAN which returns two hits. IMAP::Client specifically mentions that it does not support idle. Mail::IMAPClient supports the IDLE/DONE commands but I can't find anything in the docs to explain how to actually make use of it. Idle is not really useful unless there is some way to trigger a callback when the server notifies that new messages are available. As far as I can tell Mail::IMAPClient does not support this. If I missed something, I will apologize once again.	[reply]
Re^3: IMAP IDLE Support by robinbowes (Beadle) on Jun 09, 2009 at 07:10 UTC
18-months later, and I'm in the same boat as stu42j. I've searched and found Mail::IMAPClient, and also this node. But, I too can't find anything in the docs that explains how to use the IDLE/DONE commands. There seems to be no way to trap any new message notification from the server when in an idle state. Anyone got any ideas? R.	[reply]
Re^4: IMAP IDLE Support by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2011 at 00:09 UTC
If you are still looking for the answer just check in the test file: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MARKOV/Mail-IMAPClient-3.16/t/basic.t Down near the bottom you see the test for idle.	[reply]