dovecot - Oct 2004 - dovecot and new mail notification for subfolders in Mail.app

Hello,

I am using dovecot as an IMAP server to which Mail.app (Apple Mail) 
connects.  However I do not get any notification of new mails in folders 
other than the inbox, unless I disconnect and reconnect Mail.app or 
click on the folder with new mail.

I'm pretty sure the problem comes from Mail.app. I have searched on 
Google for how to go around this issue, and have not yet found a 
solution. If someone here uses Mail.app and dovecot, I'd be really glad 
to have some advice as to what to do.

(by the way, and this is probably related: new folders created in the 
maildir structure do not get reflected in Mail.app until I disconnect 
and reconnect).

Thanks a lot,

Alan Schmitt

-- 
The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen.
.O.
..O
OOO
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That's my setup.  I just tried it, and it works for me.  However, I 
created the imap folder through mail.app and used a rule to route mail 
into it.  Presumably you are creating your imap folders remotely, and 
using procmail or something to route mail into them.  If that's the 
case, then my test isn't valid.

Pete

On Oct 23, 2004, at 11:07 AM, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using dovecot as an IMAP server to which Mail.app (Apple Mail)
> connects.  However I do not get any notification of new mails in 
> folders
> other than the inbox, unless I disconnect and reconnect Mail.app or
> click on the folder with new mail.
>
> I'm pretty sure the problem comes from Mail.app. I have searched on
> Google for how to go around this issue, and have not yet found a
> solution. If someone here uses Mail.app and dovecot, I'd be really glad
> to have some advice as to what to do.
>
> (by the way, and this is probably related: new folders created in the
> maildir structure do not get reflected in Mail.app until I disconnect
> and reconnect).
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Alan Schmitt
>
> -- 
> The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool 
> happen.
> .O.
> ..O
> OOO

On 23.10.2004, at 18:07, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> I am using dovecot as an IMAP server to which Mail.app (Apple Mail)
> connects.  However I do not get any notification of new mails in 
> folders
> other than the inbox, unless I disconnect and reconnect Mail.app or
> click on the folder with new mail.
I found this applescript some time ago, but stopped using it because 
mail.app started crashing more often then. But that was a year ago or 
so.. Maybe it works more nicely nowadays:

on checkMail()
	tell application "Mail"
		set everyAccount to every imap account
		repeat with eachAccount in everyAccount
			tell eachAccount
				set include when getting new mail to false
				set include when getting new mail to true
			end tell
		end repeat
	end tell
end checkMail

on run
	checkMail()
end run

on idle
	checkMail()
	return 60
end idle

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