[Dovecot] Not getting new mail notification

[Charles Bueche]

Hi,

maybee nothing to do with your case, but with my Thunderbird / Dovecot setup, I had to enable "check this folder for new messages" in all the folders I wanted to monitor within TB.

Charles
Robert Creager wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm having no luck getting new mail notification except in two mail
> folders (using maildir w/procmail delivery).  I'm using three different
> clients (sylpheed-claws 1.9.14, Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 and a newer version
> of Horde).  None of them are getting new mail in any except these two
> folders (inbox and 1 other).  If I browse to the folders, still nothing.
> 
> If I browse to the folders with Horde, I see the new mail, but not
> always in the other clients.  It's hit or miss if the other clients get
> notified of the mail, but the mail is moved from the new folder.
> 
> I'm subscribed to the folders and have them to be checked for new
> messages (in Thunderbird).
> 
> I tried using dnotify, and things got worse (no folders updated).  I've
> over 350 e-mails sitting in new folders right now:
> 
> [robert at thunder Maildir]$ ls .*/new | wc
>     397     332   12925
> 
> One interesting item I noticed is that if I touch a file in a new
> directory (or vi it), I immediately get notification of the mail (and it
> gets moved from new to cur).
> 
> I'm running dovecot 1.0 RC7 configured as
> 
> ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --with-pgsql --with-pam
> --localstatedir=/var
> 
> with the following changes to the config:
> 
> base_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/
> protocols = imaps
> ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir
> verbose_proctitle = yes
> protocol imap {
>   imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep
> }
> 
> I'm running dovecot through xinetd:
> 
> service imaps
> {
>        disable         = no
>        socket_type     = stream
>        protocol        = tcp
>        wait            = no
>        user            = root
>        server          = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
>        flags           = IPv4
>        server_args     = --ssl
> }
> 
> Linux thunder.logicalchaos.org 2.6.12-12-3 #5 SMP Wed Feb 1 23:59:03 MST
> 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2600+ unknown GNU/Linux
> 
> Help?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob

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