On May 5, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Anders wrote:
Timo Sirainen wrote:
They're added when IDLE command is run. Only one IDLE command can be running at a time per each connection. With maildir it listens for
two directories. But there is only one instance created per process.So each process has one inotify instance with just two watches. I was under the impression that subfolders were also watched, but after
testing a bit, it seems to not be true. Only the SELECTed box is watched,
right?
Right.
Is there some way to have clients watch all folders? Server-side
filtering loses a bit of its value when you are not notified of the new mail.
Clients typically issue STATUS command for all mailboxes every n
minutes. I've been thinking about having Dovecot issue STATUS events
automatically when mailboxes change, but last I checked most clients
just ignored them. There exists also a draft of a new IMAP extension
where clients can ask for those STATUS events from specified mailboxes.
I guess you're using a single UID for all users? In that case the upper limits are:
- max_user_instances = max_mail_processes setting
- max_user_watches = max_mail_processes setting*2
I think max_user_watches is per instance, so should that just be 2?
So it seems.