[Dovecot] Not getting new mail notification

[Charles Marcus]

> Unfortunately, the IMAP IDLE extension only works with one mailbox at a
> time. This is a limitation in the protocol, and both Dovecot and
> Thunderbird are simply following the protocol. If I remember correctly,
> Thunderbird only uses IDLE for the INBOX. And while it is using IDLE,
> it cannot poll the other folders for new mail (well, I suppose it could
> come out of IDLE, poll all the folders, and go back to IDLE, but it
> seems like an ugly hack). So you can only use one of 2 modes: either
> use IDLE, and get notifications of new mail in INBOX only, or use
> normals periodic polls of all your folders to get notifications of new
> mail in all of them.

I may be mistaken, but doesn't 'ENHANCED_IDLE' work with not only 
multiple/concurrent connections to the same folder, but also multiple 
folders?

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Best regards,

Charles