[Dovecot] Not getting new mail notification

[Stewart Dean]

hmmmm.  maybe enhanced idle is what hybrid cars have?  Thanks for all 
you've done, and don't let the foolishness get you down.  I am about to 
shift from UW-IMAP....had a user called me up and very sullenly and 
self-righteously telling me that 90 messages in his INBOX had 'deleted 
themselves'.  I had a hard time not breaking down into hysterical 
laughter........

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 14:39 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
>   
>>> However the existing protocol pretty much already makes it possible: 
>>> Whenever a mailbox changes, send a STATUS reply to client containing the 
>>> changes (messages/unread/etc. counters). This is what the clients want 
>>> to know anyway. I don't know if any clients actually support this, 
>>> probably not. No servers support this either, although I was thinking 
>>> about adding support for it once my mailbox list index is working.
>>>       
>> Interesting - Dovecot would then be even *further* out on the cutting 
>> edge... :)
>>
>> When you say 'the existing protocol', do you mean the 
>> IDLE/ENHANCED_IDLE' protocol?
>>     
>
> I've no idea what ENHANCED_IDLE is. Some Thunderbird-specific name for
> something? In any case there's no such protocol.
>
> And yea, I mean the existing IMAP RFC which already sends STATUS replies
> when asked with STATUS command. They could be sent to client when it's
> IDLEing (and could be sent even when it's not).
>
>   
>> I think it would be great for Dovecot to support this - then it would 
>> simply (sic) be a matter of getting the mail clients (Thunderbird, etc) 
>> to support it...
>>
>> Any idea how much work *that* might be? Obviously, the simpler, the more 
>> chance of getting the devs to implement it.
>>     
>
> The good thing with the STATUS-reply way is that the clients already are
> parsing them. Most clients however seem to ignore all the untagged
> events that they didn't themself request from the server.
>   

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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources 
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York  12504  
sdean at bard.edu  voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035