[Dovecot] Upgrading to dovecot2 broke IDLE on one mailer, but not another

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, John Stracke wrote:

> Last weekend I upgraded my server (complete reinstall, actually), from Debian 
> sarge to wheezy, which brought me from dovecot 1.x (I think) to 2.1.7.  It's 
> all working now, *except* that the MUA I use on Android, Kaiten (a fork of 
> K-9), apparently no longer gets IDLE notifications.  Before the upgrade, when 
> mail arrived, Kaiten would pop up an Android notification immediately; now, 
> it never does (or it might, hours later, with all the messages it notices at 
> that time--presumably this happens when its background service gets killed 
> off and restarted).
>
> The weird thing is that IDLE still works flawlessly with Thunderbird, which 
> suggests this is a protocol interaction between Dovecot 2 and Kaiten.  (I 
> plan to check with the Kaiten folks next.) Has anybody here seen this? Is 
> there something I can turn on in Dovecot to help debug it?

To debug: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog and 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Logging

Then you'll see if Kaiten issues an IDLE at all and you could also cross 
check with other logs.

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Steffen Kaiser
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