Multiple email clients not in sync

[Reindl Harald]

Am 09.07.2014 17:23, schrieb Marc Perkel:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm not sure if this is an issue with dovecot or my various email clients, or my settings.
> 
> I'm running 2.2.13 and I have Thunderbird on my desktop and K at mail on my android phone. In theory if I delete email
> on one it should delete it on the other. It does delete it on the server - but the other client isn't always
> "aware" of it. Same thing sometimes with read messages. I read on one device but the other didn't know it's read
> unless I shut down and restart the app.
> 
> Not knowing the details of how this all works I'm assuming there is some form of notification that goes on in the
> background so as to let other clients know what other clients do so they can sync up. And that where my setup isn't
> working consistently.
> 
> Maybe my expectations are just too high? Maybe I don't have things set up correctly?
> 
> What am I missing? Thanks in advance

* do you have imap idle enabled on the server
* do you have imap idle enabled on all clients
* if both is yes - in case of subfolders: make sure enough connections are allowed
* thunderbird AFAIK needs some tweek to watch all folders for notifications
  too lazy to dig in my configs

however "imap idle" and your software on each end should be a good start for Google

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