[Dovecot] Thunderbird, IDLE, mailbox not always SELECTed

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 12:39 +0200, Tom Alsberg wrote:
> One of them reported, that he does not always see new mail.  That user
> is using Mozilla Thunderbird (1.0.7).  Looking a bit with him at the
> workings, I can see the issue.  He has the IDLE extension enabled.

I've fixed a couple of problems with IDLE since alpha5. Maybe those will
help?

> However when sniffing the network, I see that sometimes when switching
> to another mailbox, the SELECT command is not always sent to the
> server.  At the beginning, INBOX is (always) selected.  Then another
> mailbox is selected, and usually a SELECT command is sent and the
> mailbox is seen.  But going back to INBOX again, often no "SELECT
> INBOX" is seen on the wire.  Then of course he sees no "EXISTS" or
> anything like that.

Thunderbird by default uses multiple IMAP connections. Did you check the
others?