Re: [courier-users] Mail event notifications

Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Greg Cawthorn writes:
>
>> Does Courier provide a mechanism for providing mail store event
>> notifications to third party software via something like HTTP or a
>> web service call? I need to detect new mail and changes to existing
>> message flags (messages being seen or deleted) in a mail-based
>> application but am keen to avoid having to poll mailboxes since this
>> would need to scale to a large user base.
>>
>> If this doesn't exist is there an API to write a plug-in for Courier
>> to perform this functionality?
>
>
> The closest would be the IMAP IDLE command, with FAM enabled on the
> server. With FAM enabled, and an outstanding IDLE command from the
> client, the IMAP client will be notified immediately about any change
> in status of the currently open folder.
>
> See the IMAP specification, and Courier's installation notes regarding
> both subjects.
>

We have a messaging application that would need to support notification
for tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of mailboxes, and we would
therefore like to avoid having to have an IMAP connection open for each
mailbox. Is there a way with Courier for us to build a server agent that
receives triggers for new mail and similar events, which could then fire
off a notification to our application?


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