[Dovecot] meaning of parameter imap_idle_notify_interval??

[Ingo Thierack]

tried the telnet approach.
patched in the logline.

[ingo at mail ~]$ telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5] ready.
a login xxxx xxxx
a 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
b select inbox
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk
\*)] Flags permitted.
* 13 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1252958392] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 37] Predicted next UID
* OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 81] Highest
b OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
c idle
+ idling

after idling displayed, i sent a message to the account.

see the message delivered to the inbox in my syslog

 2009-10-27 23:35:20 | dovecot:               | 
deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): sieve:
msgid=<ac2e3a8f0910271535q4c5096a8w56d31e117cb7bf76 at mail.gmail.com>:
stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX'

in logfile:
<<<b select
inbox                                                                                                                                                     

>>>                                                                                                                                                                   

<<<c
idle                                                                                                                                                             

>>> 

out logfile:

* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-27
23:34:55                                                                                                                           

<<<a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN
NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-E
XTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN
CONTEXT=SEARCH] Logged
in                                                                        
>>>                                                                                                                                                                   

* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-27
23:35:00                                                                                                                           

<<<* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft
NonJunk)                                                                                                         

* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk
\*)] Flags
permitted.                                                                          

* 13
EXISTS                                                                                                                                                           

* 0
RECENT                                                                                                                                                            

* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1252958392] UIDs
valid                                                                                                                              

* OK [UIDNEXT 37] Predicted next
UID                                                                                                                                  

* OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 81]
Highest                                                                                                                                       

b OK [READ-WRITE] Select
completed.                                                                                                                                   

>>>                                                                                                                                                                   

<<<+
idling                                                                                                                                                           

>>>                                                                                                                                                                   

* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-27
23:38:03                                                                                                                           

<<<* OK Still
here                                                                                                                                                    

>>>  


Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 09:55 +0100, Ingo Thierack wrote:
>   
>> sorry to say, no change.
>> Takes more then 2 minutes until tb register there is a new mail.
>>
>> I'm the only with this behavior?
>>     
>
> At least only one who has noticed it..
>
>   
>> Could there be an problem with the inotify implementation in the 
>> CentOS-Kernel?
>>     
>
> I doubt it, but you could try if the attached patch logs a line whenever
> a new message arrives. If it does get logged and Dovecot doesn't send an
> EXISTS line to Thunderbird immediately, there's a bug. If that does
> happen, the next step could be to try it manually instead of using
> Thunderbird, e.g.:
>
> telnet localhost 143
> a login username password
> b select inbox
> c idle
>
> and then see if the EXISTS gets sent.
>