[Dovecot] IMAP IDLE, Virtual mailboxes

Matthijs Kooijman matthijs at stdin.nl
Thu Jul 22 23:17:17 EEST 2010


Hi all,

it's been a while since I wrote below email. Any chance someone has some
extra debugging suggestions for me?

Gr.

Matthijs

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:00:18AM +0200, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
> 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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