On Sunday 16 December 2018 21:55:23 Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 16 Dec 2018, at 21.26, Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com wrote:
Hello!
I found bug in Dovecot's IDLE implementation when virtual mailbox is in use. IDLE does not notify about new emails when email appears in newly created mailbox and IDLE was issued in virtual folder which matches "*" wildcard and that mailbox was created after opening virtual mailbox.
It actually has nothing to do with IDLE specifically. It's just that the virtual storage code doesn't try to look for new folders after the virtual mailbox is opened.
To get notifications, it is needed to re-open that "All" mailbox again.
Right. I don't think this is going to be fixed anytime soon. Quite a lot of effort and it can be worked around.
How to workaround it? Imap clients uses either IDLE or STATUS or LIST (with STATUS) commands for checking if there is a new messages.
But none of these commands reports existence of new message until that virtual folder is re-opened.
-- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com