[Dovecot] Not getting new mail notification
Robert Creager
Robert_Creager at LogicalChaos.org
Wed Sep 13 17:36:39 EEST 2006
Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Robert Creager wrote:
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>> Don't think so. I have that option checked, but it doesn't help.
>> When I run the script below on the Linux server, I get all my e-mail
>> from all my folders. To me, this says it's a Dovecot problem (or my
>> setup/usage of it). The TB client is on a windows machine.
>>
>> cat ../bin/doveKick.sh
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> Do the timestamps of the directories change, when you get new mail?
> Did you searched the mail archive for inotify/dnotify problems?
>
> Bye,
>
No, they don't change:
From dspam Wed Sep 13 08:32:03 2006
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Template1 oops
Folder: .PostgreSQL.General/new/1158157923.13449_0.thunder.logicalch
6091
[robert at thunder Maildir]$ ll -d .PostgreSQL.General/new
drwx------ 2 robert users 8 Sep 13 07:57 .PostgreSQL.General/new/
ll -a .PostgreSQL.General/new/
total 16
drwx------ 2 robert users 8 Sep 13 07:57 ./
drwx------ 5 robert users 4096 Sep 13 08:01 ../
-rw------- 1 robert users 6091 Sep 13 08:32
1158157923.13449_0.thunder.logicalchaos.org
Hmmm... I see the problem, but what is to be done about it?
I'm not using dnotify. I tried dnotify briefly, and the problem didn't
appear to get any better, so I recompiled without - using poll now.
More thoughts?
Thanks,
Rob
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