Multiple email clients not in sync

[Reindl Harald]

Am 09.07.2014 20:44, schrieb Marc Perkel:
> On 7/9/2014 9:49 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 09.07.2014 17:23, schrieb Marc Perkel:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if this is an issue with dovecot or my various email clients, or my settings.
>>>
>>> I'm running 2.2.13 and I have Thunderbird on my desktop and K at mail on my android phone. In theory if I delete email
>>> on one it should delete it on the other. It does delete it on the server - but the other client isn't always
>>> "aware" of it. Same thing sometimes with read messages. I read on one device but the other didn't know it's read
>>> unless I shut down and restart the app.
>>>
>>> Not knowing the details of how this all works I'm assuming there is some form of notification that goes on in the
>>> background so as to let other clients know what other clients do so they can sync up. And that where my setup isn't
>>> working consistently.
>>>
>>> Maybe my expectations are just too high? Maybe I don't have things set up correctly?
>>>
>>> What am I missing? Thanks in advance
>> * do you have imap idle enabled on the server
>> * do you have imap idle enabled on all clients
>> * if both is yes - in case of subfolders: make sure enough connections are allowed
>> * thunderbird AFAIK needs some tweek to watch all folders for notifications
>>    too lazy to dig in my configs
>>
>> however "imap idle" and your software on each end should be a good start for Google
> 
> Yes - server and all email clients do IDLE. And it does seem to work sometime. My real question is if it can work
> all the time or are my expectations too high?

there may be devices between clients and server which are closing
long living connections and especially in case of mobile devices
the client is in charge to keep connections alive if the device
moves to a different cell, switch betwenen WLAN/3G and so on

on the server side play around with tcp keep alive could help

add or cahnge the following values in "/etc/sysctl.conf" followed by "sysctl -p"
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 90
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl = 5
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes = 2


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