This is awesome! Please do open source it! I looked into doing this once before for ioloop, but ended up implementing IDLE with Twisted's twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Client instead. The results were fairly good, but I don't think it was worth the trouble finding the right timeouts, etc.
Also, not sure if it makes sense for your use case, but I considered moving to Postmark's Inbound API (http://postmarkapp.com/inbound). May work well for some people.
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This is awesome! Please do open source it! I looked into doing this once before for ioloop, but ended up implementing IDLE with Twisted's twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Client instead. The results were fairly good, but I don't think it was worth the trouble finding the right timeouts, etc.
Also, not sure if it makes sense for your use case, but I considered moving to Postmark's Inbound API (http://postmarkapp.com/inbound). May work well for some people.