[Dovecot] Imap notifications in IDLE

[Curtis Maloney]

Jarosław Przybyłowicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> could you please tell me if there is a way, to make dovecot notify my 
> mail client of new messages in inbox subfolders?
> I'm using fdm to fetch mails into maildir and proper subfolders. So far, 
> when idleing mozilla gets a notification when new message arrives in 
> INBOX, but if mail is fetched into other folder I have to click on it to 
> see if there is a new message. I've checked thunderbird imap log to 
> check if this is dovecot or TB issue.
> Is there any way to force dovecot to monitor other folders?

Right click the folder, select Properties.  In the 'General Information' tab 
of the window that appears, select 'Check this folder for new messages'.

Do this for each folder your LDA delivers into.

Really, it's the only way to do it, and it means an extra IMAP connection 
per folder.

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Curtis Maloney
cmaloney at cardgate.net