[Dovecot] Thunderbird does not notice new mails arrival in imap folders

Frank Bonnet f.bonnet at esiee.fr
Sun Apr 24 08:49:23 EEST 2011


Finally I had to set to TRUE

mail.check_new_mail
mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new

options to have what I wanted

Thanks to all !

Le 23/04/2011 20:12, Jim Knuth a écrit :
> am 23.04.11 18:28 schrieb Andreas Ntaflos <daff at dword.org>:
> 
>> On 23/04/11 06:58, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Since I've installed Dovecot 2 I've observed that TB does not
>>> notice new mails arrival in IMAP folders.
>>> When I click on a folder new mails count is updated, with
>>> dovecot 1 it was automatic.
>>> I wonder if it is due to the new TB version (lastest stable)
>>> or Dovecot 2 (2.0.11).
>>
>> I believe this is the default behaviour in Thunderbird 3 and has nothing
>> to do with Dovecot. To change it so that Thunderbird checks all IMAP
>> folders for new messages open the config editor and set
>>
>> mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new
>>
>> to "true".
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Andreas
>>
> 
> you are right. Thanx.
> 


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