[Dovecot] Question about IMAP IDLE (and Palm Pre)

[Ingo Thierack]

Hello,

i try to understand, how it works (IDLE).
Try to get it successfully work with my new Palm Pre ;-)
which looks like to have a lot issues wir imap... so i'll blame not dovecot
for the issues.

Sent a mail, from googlemail.
processed by dovecot ad 12:11.

what me now confusing, is, that there in the out-log is nothing visible,
I expected, to see there was sent an notification, there was a new mail.
Do i miss something?

After arounde 15 minutes the Palm sent a "DONE" and reconnect.
then the messages was received.

Regards
Ingo

email come in
2009-10-19 12:11:27 | dovecot:        |  deliver(xxxxxxx at ghostdive.org): 
sieve: 
msgid=<ac2e3a8f0910190311t381d9e33j99e6aa4d1e07c88a at mail.gmail.com>: 
stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX'


outfile-log

* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-19 12:09:33
<<<~~A4 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID 
ENABLE SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT
IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE 
QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH] Logged in
 >>>
<<<* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE 
SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CH
ILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC 
ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH
~~A5 OK Capability completed.
 >>>
<<<* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk 
\*)] Flags permitted.
* 42 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1252956599] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 156] Predicted next UID
* OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 132] Highest
~~A6 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
 >>>
<<<* SEARCH 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 136 137 138 139 
140 141 142 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 155
~~A7 OK Search completed (0.000 secs).
 >>>
<<<* SEARCH
~~A8 OK Search completed (0.000 secs).
 >>>
<<<* SEARCH
~~A9 OK Search completed (0.000 secs).
 >>>
<<<* SEARCH
~~A10 OK Search completed (0.000 secs).
 >>>
<<<* SEARCH 155
~~A11 OK Search completed (0.000 secs).
 >>>
<<<+ idling
 >>>
* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-19 12:14:36
<<<* OK Still here
 >>>
* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-19 12:19:36
<<<* OK Still here
 >>>

in-log

<<<~~A5 capability
 >>>
<<<~~A6 select "Inbox"
 >>>
<<<~~A7 UID SEARCH ALL UID 124:*
 >>>
<<<~~A8 uid search unseen UID 124:*
 >>>
<<<~~A9 uid search answered UID 124:*
 >>>
<<<~~A10 uid search flagged UID 124:*
 >>>
<<<~~A11 uid search deleted UID 124:*
 >>>
<<<~~A12 IDLE
 >>>
<<<DONE
 >>>