Hi,
So I was testing things with inotify notifications enabled and noticed that when I a) select a mailbox other than the inbox b) IDLE c) copy mail into the /new folder in that mailbox
nothing happens! So I straced it and it always opens the inbox's new/ and cur/ directories for notifications. Is that the correct behaviour?
I assumed that if I select some mailbox other than the inbox, IDLE should inform me of status updates in that box, since RFC 2177 says:
The Internet Message Access Protocol [IMAP4] requires a client to poll the server for changes to the selected mailbox (new mail, deletions).
Now, I get this behaviour by applying the attached patch.
But even if I'm wrong, dovecot doesn't implement any sensible behaviour, as it only ever creates *any* notifications during IDLE when the INBOX is selected.
[hm. note that I'm only testing maildir]
johannes