[Dovecot] IDLE timing issue - dovecot or fetchmail issue?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 12.1.2010, at 4.40, Matt Doran wrote:

> fetchmail: IMAP> A0006 IDLE
> fetchmail: IMAP< + idling
> fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 EXISTS
> fetchmail: IMAP> DONE
> fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 RECENT
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0006 OK Idle completed.

First mail is received, fetchmail starts downloading it.

> fetchmail: IMAP> A0011 STORE 1 +FLAGS (\Seen \Deleted)
> fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen \Recent))
> fetchmail: IMAP< * 2 EXISTS
> fetchmail: IMAP< * 2 RECENT
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0011 OK Store completed.

Second mail is received, Dovecot notifies fetchmail about it.

> fetchmail: IMAP> A0013 IDLE
> fetchmail: IMAP< + idling

Fetchmail is buggy and ignores EXISTS events if they arrive during non-IDLE commands.