[Dovecot] mbox snarf plugin + idle

[jsiegle at psu.edu]

Still haven't figured it out. Looks like mbox_snarf_sync_init(which calls 
mbox_snarf) is called once. Looks like cmd_idle only wants to update when:

   /* check immediately if there are changes. if they came before we
            added mailbox-notifier, we wouldn't see them otherwise. */
         if (client->mailbox != NULL)
                 idle_sync_now(client->mailbox, ctx);

So maybe this is by design. So it looks like I should always keep one 
e-mail in my inbox to delete in order to get new messages when using idle?


On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Jonathan Siegle wrote:

> I'm having a problem with mbox snarf not looking at /var/spool/mail/ when in 
> idle mode thus never giving me a RECENT line even though there are new 
> messages in /var/spool/mail/ . Here are the imap commands to reproduce the 
> problem:
>
>
> 1 login userid password
> 2 select inbox
> 3 idle
>
>
> When I run "select inbox" it does see my messages in /var/spool/mail/ and 
> moves them over fine.
> When I truss the process, I see it only running stat calls on my "mbox-snarf" 
> file. To get new messages I issue DONE, CLOSE, and SELECT INBOX.
>
> I'm not sure why it is reporting alpha5 two lines below. I did an hg pull 
> just the other day and see 1.2.beta1 in the output of hg tags.
> # /usr/ladmin2/sbin/dovecot -n
> # 1.2.alpha5: /usr/ladmin2/etc/dovecot.conf
> Warning: fd limit 2000 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load 
> (more than 4224). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count 
> and max_mail_processes settings
> # OS: AIX 3 0001112AD300
> syslog_facility: local0
> protocols: imap
> listen: *:2222
> ssl: no
> disable_plaintext_auth: no
> login_dir: /usr/ladmin2/var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/ladmin2/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> login_greeting: Dovecot ready.
> login_processes_count: 30
> max_mail_processes: 4096
> mail_location: mbox:%h/new:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/14/%u
> mmap_disable: yes
> dotlock_use_excl: no
> mbox_write_locks: fcntl
> mbox_lazy_writes: no
> mail_plugins: mbox_snarf
> imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail
> auth default:
> mechanisms: plain gssapi
> krb5_keytab: /etc/krb5/dovecot.keytab
> gssapi_hostname: $ALL
> verbose: yes
> debug: yes
> passdb:
>   driver: pam
> userdb:
>   driver: passwd
> plugin:
> mbox_snarf: /gpfs/inbox/14/%u
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan