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

[Robert Schetterer]

Ingo Thierack schrieb:
> 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

As far i read about palm pre , its imap app is terrible
therfore , simple advise dont use it, or try to install working mail
client on palm pre like thunderbird etc ( dont know if this is possible )

in general
its a shame for this big companies , that there eye seems only to be on
how to make money with their apps, and their additional services, and
dont push good implementations of old and open standarts like imap
i am still searching for a linux smartphone which works i excpected
all smartphones i tried since yet were somehow incomplete in mail stuff

> 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
>>>>


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Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria