[Dovecot] Client behaviour with sieve

[Nikita Koshikov]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:17:17 +0100
Koenraad Lelong <dovecot at ace-electronics.be> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a working dovecot imap-server, with sieve.
> I find it odd that my mail-clients (Thunderbird 2 and 3) don't report 
> anything that's new in the folders.
> What I mean is this :
> Postfix get's a mail and hands it over to dovecot's LDA and sieve moves 
> it to a folder.
> When I log in with Thunderbird, I see new messages in my Inbox. But that 
> message that was moved to a folder is "invisible" until I click on the 
> folder. Then Thunderbird sees there are new messages in that folder and 
> reports the number of new messages and makes the foldername bold.
> 
> Is this the expected behaviour ? Or did I configure something wrong ?
> Thanks for any clarification.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Koenraad Lelong.

Take a look http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips#beh_downloadstartup