Bug in IDLE implementation for virtual mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On 16 Dec 2018, at 21.26, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I found bug in Dovecot's IDLE implementation when virtual mailbox is in
> use. IDLE does not notify about new emails when email appears in newly
> created mailbox and IDLE was issued in virtual folder which matches "*"
> wildcard and that mailbox was created after opening virtual mailbox.

It actually has nothing to do with IDLE specifically. It's just that the virtual storage code doesn't try to look for new folders after the virtual mailbox is opened.

> To get notifications, it is needed to re-open that "All" mailbox again.

Right. I don't think this is going to be fixed anytime soon. Quite a lot of effort and it can be worked around.