[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99 + apple mail.app

[Curtis Maloney]

F. Even wrote:
> I've recently had a small issue w/ T-Bird on my wife's XP laptop since 
> I've moved to Dovecot...the logs indicated she had a new msg., she 
> thought she heard a "ding" indicating a new msg., but there was no 
> indication of it in T-Bird, and clicking "Get Mail" didn't do anything. 
>  I hit the "offline" icon at the bottom corner, put it back online, and 
> hit "Get Messages," and all was fine.  So...problem w/ T-Bird or 
> Dovecot, jury is out, but I have not seen any common occurrences of this 
> issue, so nothing I'm all that worried about.

There are two ways to fix this.

Thunderbird will let you set per-folder to check for new messages.

Right click the folder, select Properties, and tick "Check this folder for new 
messages".

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Curtis Maloney
cmaloney at cardgate.net