Anand Buddhdev wrote:
Charles Marcus wrote:
In my experience, the only way to get notified of new mail in more than one folder is poll all the folders regularly. It is ugly, and the more folders you have the more traffic it generates. Thunderbird makes it worse by initially selecting each folder (and subfolders) for a poll. Even a modest numbers of mailboxes will cause a lot of polling, especially if you check for mail every minute. One has to manually go and turn off the poll for all the folders where notification is not needed.
The person who designed the IDLE extension was obviously not thinking properly. What's the point in having a multi-folder mail access protocol such as IMAP if the server can't notify the client of changes in the folders? However, the protocol's designer is rather pig-headed, and firmly refuses to entertain the idea of IDLE for multiple folders.
Thanks for all the info (and the following replies). It's interesting that a service that is server based (message storage), appears to want client side filtering of those messages.
I thought I was moving up from POP3 so I could get my e-mail from any old client, as I had all my filtering client based previously. So I moved it to server based (via procmail), but cannot get notification now. Not Dovecot's problem, just my pre-concieved notions being soundly squished.
I love Dovecot. It's been the easiest piece of software I've never had to configure to get working ;-)
Cheers, Rob