[Dovecot] IMAP IDLE, Virtual mailboxes

Matthijs Kooijman matthijs at stdin.nl
Thu Apr 29 11:00:18 EEST 2010


Hi Timo, Patrick,

> > Virtual plugin does already work like that. Although there's a bug
> > where messages don't get removed from mailbox always:
>
> Oh, I see. I'll give it another try then, I believe I tried this, but 
> never got notified of new mails in the virtual mailbox through the IMAP 
> IDLE connection.
I'm seeing the same thing: IDLE works fine for normal mailboxes, but fails on
a virtual mailbox. Using rawlog I can confirm that the IDLE command is
received properly, but there is just no notification of the new mail at all:

 > a0026 IDLE
 < + idling
 < * OK Still here
 < * OK Still here
 ... around a hundred more of these ...
 < * OK Still here
 < * OK Still here
 > DONE
 < a0026 OK Idle completed.

(The interleaving of the in and out messages is done by me, but I think this
should be how it went)

During this idle period, tens of emails were delivered, but nothing shows up.

Any suggestions on debugging this further? I'm running dovecot 1.2.9 from
backports.org (but I could compile my own and add some debbuging statements,
if that would help and you have suggestions on where to put them).

Gr.

Matthijs
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