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

Jerry gesbbb at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 12 20:38:29 EET 2010


On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:21:17 +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> articulated:

> 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.

Out of curiosity, has this been reported to the Fetchmail developer(s)?

-- 
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com



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