@bobfrankston/rmfmail 1.1.193 → 1.1.195

package/packages/mailx-imap/index.ts

@@ -651,7 +651,19 @@ export class ImapManager extends EventEmitter {
         const config = this.configs.get(accountId);
         if (!config) throw new Error(`No config for account ${accountId}`);
         const host = config.server || accountId;
-        const releaseHostSlot = await this.acquireHostSlot(host);
+        // IDLE bypasses the host semaphore. The semaphore caps concurrent
+        // connection OPENS so a multi-account-on-one-host setup can't blow the
+        // server's connection limit — but IDLE is a SINGLE long-lived socket
+        // per account (the subscription), established once and parked. Gating
+        // it behind the same 4 permits that sync/prefetch/fast churn through
+        // meant that when sync saturated the pool (folders timing out at 360s),
+        // IDLE could not get a slot to (re)subscribe — so new mail stopped
+        // arriving by push and the user fell back to slow polling (Bob
+        // 2026-05-29: "you should be subscribed and not depend on sync"). The
+        // subscription must NEVER be starved by sync. One extra socket per
+        // account is well within any server cap.
+        const skipSemaphore = purpose === "idle";
+        const releaseHostSlot = skipSemaphore ? (() => { /* no semaphore for IDLE */ }) : await this.acquireHostSlot(host);
         let client: any;
         try {
             // Verbose IMAP wire trace for ops connections only — that's the

package/packages/mailx-imap/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@bobfrankston/mailx-imap",
-  "version": "0.1.74",
+  "version": "0.1.75",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@bobfrankston/mailx-imap",
-      "version": "0.1.74",
+      "version": "0.1.75",
       "license": "ISC",
       "dependencies": {
         "@bobfrankston/iflow-direct": "^0.1.27",

package/packages/mailx-imap/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bobfrankston/mailx-imap",
-  "version": "0.1.74",
+  "version": "0.1.75",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "index.js",
   "types": "index.d.ts",