[ale] Thunderbird vs. Dovecot: "imap new mail checking"

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:00 -0400, Steve Tynor wrote:
> I read my mail with Thunderbird 1.0.2 via IMAP on a FedoraCore3-hosted 
> dovecot  0.99.11-1.FC3.4) server.
> 
> It all works very nicely except that "new mail" checking seems to be 
> unreliable. I use procmail to deliver to a dozen or so mailboxes and 
> have set up Thunderbird to monitor each of them for new mail. Sometimes 
> it properly notices that a mailbox has new mail.  Often times, though, 
> new mail will not be noticed until I click on a mail folder - then 
> suddenly Thunderbird will notice that the folder has new mail. (and I 
> can verify that that new mail had been delivered hours ago - long enough 
> that auto check should have noticed).
> 
> I've googled for "new mail" bug reports for Thunderbird or Dovecot and 
> haven't found any known issues.  Can anyone recommend how best to debug 
> this?  Is anyone else seeing similar problems?

Are all of the separate accounts marked "active" or "check" or some such
way to identify which ones should be auto-checked?

Another thing: only the Inbox is polled on checking for new mail. If you
have procmail doing the sorting into boxes _other_ than the "official"
inbox, tbird has no way of knowing the state change until it actually
looks at the container.

You may want to use the mail filters in Tbird to put the mail into the
folders automatically when it retrieves the mail from dovecot. That way
it knows the size changed.
> 
> Thanks!
> Steve
> 
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