[Dovecot] aha! (was apple mail vs. v0.99)

[sean finney]

it seems that when you say "check for new mail" in apple mail, it sends
a NOOP to the imap server to get the response.   in uw, the conversation
is something like:

25 NOOP
25 OK NOOP completed
26 NOOP
* 2796 EXISTS
* 7 RECENT
26 OK NOOP completed

however, with dovecot, if it has already notified the client that new
mail has arrived, it will look something like:

* 24 EXISTS
* 2 RECENT
22 NOOP
22 OK NOOP completed.
23 NOOP
23 OK NOOP completed.

(the counts are different because these are seperate accounts)

so evidently, apple mail is too stupid to realize to read info from the
server unless it asked for it...

so now that i think i have a short-term fix (disabling notification for 
new mail server-side), i can breathe a sigh of relief.  for a long-term
fix, would it be possible to have the server always notify the client
of new mail after a NOOP?


thanks,
	sean
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