I was wrong, Mailspring uses the IMAP IDLE extension to wait for new mail delivery

The reason I was asking about the folders is that IMAP IDLE only works for one folder at a time. If you want real-time push for 10 folders (for example), it has to open 10 separate IMAP connections. Because of this, clients usually either only enable push for the inbox, or let you choose which folders to enable it for.

Interesting… Which email provider do you use?

Can you choose which folders use real-time push vs which folders use polling?

KDE was originally called “Kool Desktop Environment” until they renamed it, first to “K Desktop Environment” then to just “KDE”.

It was the first Linux desktop environment that tried to make all its apps look consistent. Before KDE, Linux UI apps were very inconsistent, each one using whatever UI toolkit it wanted. They likely named all of them with a K to make the naming somewhat consistent too.

Gtk was released two years later, originally only used in GIMP (Gtk originally stood for for “GIMP ToolKit”) and it took a while for other desktop environments to have a consistent look and feel like KDE did.

I’m using Thunderbird.

On my work computers, I don’t want the email to be stored locally since they back up the entire system to the cloud for retention and compliance purposes, so I’m using Roundcube (webmail app) hosted on the email server itself. I self-host my email server.

FairEmail is great! One of the best email clients I’ve ever used.

It started struggling a bit with a large mailbox though, so I switched to K9 Mail (which I’ve heard will eventually become Thunderbird for Android)

Last time I tried it, it had major issues with folders (for example, folders didn’t refresh often enough, and notifications weren’t shown for emails that are sorted into folders). I tried to fix it myself, but gave up after I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t syncing folders properly: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/pull/2308

For what it’s worth, KDE Plasma 6.1.1 and Wayland are working perfectly for me on Fedora 40, but only after installing the newest Nvidia drivers version 555.58, which was only added to the Fedora RPMFusion repo last week. Wayland didn’t work well at all before that.

For WinPE, I like Sergey Strelec’s build more than Hiren’s: https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/sergei_strelecs_winpe.html

McAfee might be doing something weird with the database, for example not closing it properly.

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