[Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

[Tobias Lang]

Am 28.12.2009 um 16:14 schrieb Florian Effenberger:

> Hi Tobias,
> 
>> This might be help you...
>> **quote**
>> If Thunderbird doesn't recognize that a folder contains unread messages try
>> setting mail.imap.use_status_for_biff true. It causes Thunderbird to
>> explicitly select each folder to update the message summaries, rather than
>> using the STATUS command. It has more overhead, but some IMAP servers don't
>> return STATUS correctly.
>> **quote**
> 
> thanks, that's exactly what I am refering to. ;-) This paragraph talks
> about "some IMAP servers don't return STATUS correctly", and I'm
> interested to hear if this is true for recent Dovecot versions and
> whether a patch or a configuration directive is available to fix it...
> :)
> 
> Florian


Locking at http://www.dovecot.org/ :

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Overview

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* "Dovecot is standards compliant. Dovecot v1.1 passes all IMAP server standard compliancy
tests while most other servers fail many of them."
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Hope, this answers your question. Maybe you should use a recent version of Dovecot (stable is 1.2.9)
and not v1.0

Tobi (another one)