On Mar 7, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
I've always had that problem, but I don't know what could be done about it. Mail.app simply doesn't read or write anything to the IMAP server unless it's specifically told to do something. I heard from someone it was working with Courier, but with my Courier test server it didn't work. So, apparently it was working with UW-IMAP before? Perhaps I'll try it too to see if it does something differently..
I just tested this again - I sent mail from Mail.app to two accounts, one of which is running Courier, and one of which is running dovecot 1.0-stable. For both accounts, Mail.app chimed to tell me I had new mail, 1 minute apart (delivery to the dovecot server takes longer because it runs through fetchmail/procmail/spamassassin). It was in the background with my "combined" inbox selected/displayed at the time.
The frequency with which it polls the server seems to be dictated by the Preferences > General > "Check for new mail:" interval, which I set to 1 minute for this test.
-- Nicholas Riley njriley@uiuc.edu | 4111 Siebel Center Department of Computer Science | 201 N. Goodwin Ave. and Medical Scholars Program | Urbana, IL 61801-2302 Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | +1 217 244 2274