@bobfrankston/iflow-direct 0.1.44 → 0.1.46

package/imap-native.js

@@ -1126,7 +1126,23 @@ export class NativeImapClient {
         return -1;
     }
     processBuffer() {
+        // Time-budget the synchronous processing so a large FETCH burst
+        // (sync of many envelopes in a single data chunk) doesn't starve
+        // the Node event loop. Without this yield, IPC dispatchers in the
+        // same process can wait 10+ seconds to get cycles — visible as
+        // `mailxapi timeout: getMessage` / `getUnifiedInbox` on the desktop
+        // client during heavy sync (Bob 2026-05-15: log shows daemon doing
+        // hundreds of literal-consumed per second; client IPCs starve and
+        // hit 30s ceiling). 10 ms budget = the same time slice Node uses
+        // for I/O; after that we yield via setImmediate so timers, IPC,
+        // and other I/O get a turn, then resume.
+        const t0 = performance.now();
+        const TIME_BUDGET_MS = 10;
         while (true) {
+            if (performance.now() - t0 > TIME_BUDGET_MS) {
+                setImmediate(() => this.processBuffer());
+                return;
+            }
             // Check for literal — `{N}` announces N octets of arbitrary data
             // (message body, MIME part, attachment chunk). The buffer is
             // bytes; the check is a direct length compare and the slice is

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bobfrankston/iflow-direct",
-  "version": "0.1.44",
+  "version": "0.1.46",
   "description": "Direct IMAP client — transport-agnostic, no Node.js dependencies, browser-ready",
   "main": "index.js",
   "types": "index.ts",