[Dovecot] Not getting new mail notification

[Charles Marcus]

>> When you say 'the existing protocol', do you mean the 
>> IDLE/ENHANCED_IDLE' protocol?

> I've no idea what ENHANCED_IDLE is. Some Thunderbird-specific name for
> something? In any case there's no such protocol.

Hmmm... googling, I see lots of references - but nothing concrete. Seems 
it may be some kind of extension to the IDLE protocol... Courier 
supports it - and in fact, almost every google hit is courier related.

> And yea, I mean the existing IMAP RFC which already sends STATUS replies
> when asked with STATUS command. They could be sent to client when it's
> IDLEing (and could be sent even when it's not).

>> I think it would be great for Dovecot to support this - then it would 
>> simply (sic) be a matter of getting the mail clients (Thunderbird, etc) 
>> to support it...
>>
>> Any idea how much work *that* might be? Obviously, the simpler, the more 
>> chance of getting the devs to implement it.
> 
> The good thing with the STATUS-reply way is that the clients already are
> parsing them. Most clients however seem to ignore all the untagged
> events that they didn't themself request from the server.

Cool - means it may be trivial to get the Client to just not ignore them...

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Best regards,

Charles