[Dovecot] Mail.app IDLE support

[Timo Sirainen]

On 15.11.2007, at 22.08, Martin R. Ehmsen wrote:

> The above shows the only time IDLE is every used (except when  
> Mail.app asks for the capabilities of the server).
> Somewhere after 14:46:57, but before 14:48:52, I copied (since I  
> have no SMTP server running on my laptop) a new mail into the new  
> directory of the maildir I subscribed to. But as you can see from  
> the above, somehow dovecot failed to notice the new mail.
> I don't use (d/i)notify or kqueue, but I did set dovecot up to  
> check every 30 sec, which it obviously didn't.
> Btw. the mail arrives fine if I manually check for new mail in  
> Mail.app.

IDLE checks for new mails only in the selected mailbox, not all  
mailboxes. IMAP doesn't really support that.

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