Hi there...
I am still awaiting replies to my last (rather long) message on this subject. Some assistance in debugging would be appreciated.
In the meanwhile, getting deeper into the sequence of calls when new mail arrives, I have traced the issue to be related the following in imap_sync_deinit(...):
if (status.messages != ctx->messages_count) {
client_send_line(ctx->client,
t_strdup_printf("* %u EXISTS", status.messages));
}As I understand, at this point, status.messages should be the number of messages in the mailbox, and ctx->message_count the number of messages last reported to the client.
Putting some debugging prints in there, it appears that sometimes when new mail arrives to the mbox, while Dovecot did detect that the mtime of the mailbox has changed, at this point, status.messages does not reflect that (for some reason - although there is new mail in the mailbox), and therefore no EXISTS message is sent to the client.
Any insights on that?
On another note, shouldn't the EXISTS message be on IDLE sent whenever there is a change in the mailbox? After all, a message can be replaced or changed, in which case the number of messages will not be updated, but one would want the client informed on the change...
Thanks, help appreciated, -- Tom
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