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

[Matt Doran]

Matt Doran wrote:
> Jerry wrote:
>> 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)?
>>
>>   
> I haven't reported this to the fetchmail developers, but I will now 
> that I've confirmed it's their bug.
>
For those interested, I've raised this on the fetchmail list here:

    
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2010-January/002183.html

Regards,
Matt