diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index 0c0db3876a..33338bfe6a 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -2821,7 +2821,13 @@ Reformatting and displaying such messages will take too long. You can try to use * [IMAP NOTIFY](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5465) support -NOTIFY support means that notifications of *subscribed* folders will be requested and when a notification is received that the folder will be synchronized. +IMAP NOTIFY support means that notifications for added, changed or deleted messages of all *subscribed* folders will be requested +and if a notification is received for a subscribed folder, that the folder will be synchronized. +Synchronization for subscribed folders can therefore be disable, saving folder connections to the email server. + +**Important**: push messages (=always sync) for the inbox needs to be enabled. + +**Important**: most email server do not support this!