252645 - don't check mail, when I'm not here

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Mikhail T.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; uk-UA; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040702
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; uk-UA; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040702

I'd very much like an option to tell Mozilla to stop checking for new messages
and disconnect from the IMAP/POP/whatever server once it notices -- through
X-server (or otherwise -- whatever the method is on Windows), that I'm not here.
Once I'm back, Mozilla should reconnect to all servers and start checking mail
at the specified interval again.

Instant Messaging clients have this functionality -- they can automaticly set
the "away" state after a certain period of idleness.

I'm using my own somewhat underpowered IMAP-server, and don't want it to be
interrogated all night every 5 minutes...

Mail-service providers will certainly appreciate this feature and will be more
likely to recommend Mozilla to their users, because it will reduce the average
load on their servers -- especially, if this option's checkbox is on by default.

I'm entering the same feature-request to the KDE's bugzilla :-) Let's see, who,
if anyone, gets it faster. Thanks!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mikhail T.]

KDE's bugzilla entry is here:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85711

It may contain some more details in the future.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Note that some IMAP servers (Cyrus, Courier-IMAP 1.6) support the IDLE command,
RFC 2177. See bug 141369. If that's the case, Mozilla won't contact the server
anymore (except once per 30 minutes), but a new message will be pushed by the
server itself. This avoids the constant polling, and also makes sure that a real
new message will be downloaded immediately when it arrives.

Comment 3

[Mikhail T.]

Yes, the IDLE command is nice, but it still keeps the network connection open 
and a process/thread on the server busy... 
 
I am talking about suppressing all activity, when the desktop is idle... 
 
Mmm, speaking of which, perhaps, the web-browser part of Mozilla can also be 
smart enough to cease playing animations (if any)?.. 

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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