[Dovecot] meaning of parameter imap_idle_notify_interval??

[Ingo Thierack]

a little bit late but now.

As far as I can see, no EXISTS, after idling

Even can't see the additional output in the logmessages.

Looks like the code is never reached?

telnet:

* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE 
STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5] ready.
a login xxx xxxxx
a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE 
SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN 
NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH 
ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH] Logged in
b select inbox
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk 
\*)] Flags permitted.
* 6 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1252958392] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 41] Predicted next UID
* OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 104] Highest
b OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
c idle
+ idling
* OK Still here
* OK Still here

logfile

Nov 04 12:20:47 dovecot: Info: This is Dovecot's info log
Nov 04 12:20:47 dovecot: Warning: This is Dovecot's warning log
Nov 04 12:20:47 dovecot: Error: This is Dovecot's error log
Nov 04 12:20:47 dovecot: Fatal: This is Dovecot's fatal log
Nov 04 12:25:01 IMAP(ingo): Info: Effective uid=20000, gid=20000, 
home=/mnt/mail/home/ingo
Nov 04 12:25:01 IMAP(ingo): Info: dbox: 
data=/mnt/mail/mail/ingo:INDEX=/var/spool/indexes/ingo
Nov 04 12:25:01 IMAP(ingo): Info: fs: root=/mnt/mail/mail/ingo, 
index=/var/spool/indexes/ingo, control=, inbox=
Nov 04 12:25:01 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<ingo>, method=PLAIN, 
rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: Loading modules from 
directory: /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: Module loaded: 
/opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: auth input: 
home=/mnt/mail/home/ingo
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: auth input: 
mail=dbox:/mnt/mail/mail/ingo:INDEX=/var/spool/indexes/ingo
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: auth input: uid=20000
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: auth input: gid=20000
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: dbox: 
data=/mnt/mail/mail/ingo:INDEX=/var/spool/indexes/ingo
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: fs: 
root=/mnt/mail/mail/ingo, index=/var/spool/indexes/ingo, control=, inbox=
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: sieve: using sieve 
path for user's script: /mnt/mail/home/ingo/.dovecot.sieve
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: sieve: opening script 
/mnt/mail/home/ingo/.dovecot.sieve
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: sieve: executing 
compiled script /mnt/mail/home/ingo/.dovecot.sieve
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: sieve: 
msgid=<OF7BC0B05A.AEFFD6E5-ONC1257664.003EC4A0-C1257664.003ECD23 at conrad.de>: 
forwarded to <ingo at a263722.exchange-mail.eu>
Nov 04 12:26:28 deliver(ingo at ghostdive.org): Info: sieve: 
msgid=<OF7BC0B05A.AEFFD6E5-ONC1257664.003EC4A0-C1257664.003ECD23 at conrad.de>: 
stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX'

after that nothing more. Must I change some switch?

raw-log in

<<<b select 
inbox                                                                                                                   

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<<<c 
idle                                                                                                                           

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raw-log out

* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-11-04 
12:25:01                                                                                         

<<<a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE 
SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDL
E CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC 
ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH] Logged in  
 >>>                                                                                                                                 

* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-11-04 
12:25:15                                                                                         

<<<* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft 
NonJunk)                                                                       

* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk 
\*)] Flags permitted.                                       
* 6 
EXISTS                                                                                                                          

* 0 
RECENT                                                                                                                          

* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1252958392] UIDs 
valid                                                                                            

* OK [UIDNEXT 41] Predicted next 
UID                                                                                                

* OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 104] 
Highest                                                                                                    

b OK [READ-WRITE] Select 
completed.                                                                                                 

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* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-11-04 
12:25:28                                                                                         

<<<+ 
idling                                                                                                                         

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* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-11-04 
12:28:28                                                                                         

<<<* OK Still 
here                                                                                                                  

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* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-11-04 
12:31:28                                                                                         

<<<* OK Still 
here                                                                                                                  

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* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-11-04 
12:34:28                                                                                         

<<<* OK Still 
here                                                                                                                  

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Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> You seem to have kind of mixed everything into one so I don't know what
> happened. Rawlog (*.in, *.out files) isn't the same as where my patch
> was logging the message, it went to Dovecot's error log
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging. Also do you mean there was no EXISTS
> reply sent at all after IDLE was started in either rawlog or telnet
> session?
>
> So the most important thing: After deliver logs the message, how long
> does it take for "inotify triggered" message to get written to Dovecot's
> log file? Or does it never get logged there? (Make sure you're looking
> at the log file where dovecot --log-error writes "This is Dovecot's
> warning log.")
>
>