IMAP NOTIFY (RFC 5465) ?

Anatoli me at anatoli.ws
Tue Apr 21 15:06:44 EDT 2020


Дилян,

Is there any IMAP NOTIFY capable client? Have you investigated it further?

And AFAIK notifyd is for another purpose (incomplete in the opensource
version, but used for things like push notifications which are under
NDAs from Apple).

Regards,
Anatoli

On 4/3/20 10:39, Дилян Палаузов wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is RFC 5465 (IMAP NOTIFY (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5465.html) supported in 3.0 as stated at 
> https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/rfc-support.html ?
> 
> Per RFC 5465 page 7, the server-side support is announced with “ S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 NOTIFY]”.  The CAPABILITY
> answer is generated in imap/imapd.c using “static struct capa_struct base_capabilities[]” in capa_response().  The
> latter contains no code to generate NOTIFY.
> 
> Moreover, the event_notifier in imapd.conf suggests utilizing it for EVENT NOTIFICATIONS,but the possible options for
> notifyd(8) https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/reference/manpages/systemcommands/notifyd.html are null, log, mailto, zephyr
> and external: none of which is applicable to IMAP NOTIFY as substitution of IMAP IDLE.
> 
> That leaves me with the impression that the documentation is misleading about IMAP NOTIFY support.
> 
> Greetings
>   Дилян
> 


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