[Dovecot] Thunderbird problem

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:11:19PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Patrick Nagel put forth on 6/26/2010 2:08 AM:

[...]

> I'm no IMAP expert, but what you state here doesn't make any sense at all.

[...]

> postfix smtpd fire the email showed in my inbox in TB.  This shows that IDLE
> is working with only a single IMAP connection to Dovecot. [...]

> > [1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2177.html
> > [2] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc5465.html
> 
> RFCs are a huge PITA to read and digest.  I may take a look if required, but
> for now I think this theory is malarky.  No offense intended.  Just calling it
> as I see it.

The references are spot-on. The IDLE command is just designed to notify
changes to the *selected* mailbox. And a client can have just one
selected mailbox (per-connection, that is). That's simply a limitation
of the protocol. Clients may work around this by opening several
connections and selecting one mailbox per connection.

And refusing to read 130 lines of RFC (the first one, describing IDLE is
really that short) to just say "meh, I don't believe you" doesn't sound
really appropriate.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards
- -- tomás
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