hello all, first off, a success story. after much testing and preperation, we've switched from uw-imap to dovecot. i am not kidding when i say that we have experienced an order of magnitude decrease in server load (previously load peaks were 40-60, now they are 3-4). so, suffice to say that the mail admins here are very happy :) one problem that has come up though is particular to apple's mail.app. when a client recieves a new message, they aren't notified that it's arrived, and often even when pressing "check for new mail" they don't see it come in. however, if they move from one mailbox to another, and then back, it shows up. it also shows up if thtey completely quit out of the program and start it back up. i'm going to try and get a packet dump of this to see if i can find out what's happening in the conversation, but figured in the meantime i'd put my feelers out to see if anyone else is having this problem. thanks, sean -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20050307/749f0f68/attachment-0001.bin>
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:50:54AM -0500, sean finney wrote:> i'm going to try and get a packet dump of this to see if i can find out > what's happening in the conversation, but figured in the meantime i'd > put my feelers out to see if anyone else is having this problem.I've been using dovecot with Apple Mail for a bit over a year now, and the only problem I see from time to time is that sent messages sometimes get truncated; that was fixed at some point in the 1.0 series. New mail notification works fine for me. -- Nicholas Riley <njriley at uiuc.edu> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
On 7.3.2005, at 18:50, sean finney wrote:> one problem that has come up though is particular to apple's mail.app. > when a client recieves a new message, they aren't notified that it's > arrived, and often even when pressing "check for new mail" they don't > see it come in. however, if they move from one mailbox to another, > and then back, it shows up. it also shows up if thtey completely quit > out of the program and start it back up. > > i'm going to try and get a packet dump of this to see if i can find out > what's happening in the conversation, but figured in the meantime i'd > put my feelers out to see if anyone else is having this problem.I've always had that problem, but I don't know what could be done about it. Mail.app simply doesn't read or write anything to the IMAP server unless it's specifically told to do something. I heard from someone it was working with Courier, but with my Courier test server it didn't work. So, apparently it was working with UW-IMAP before? Perhaps I'll try it too to see if it does something differently.. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20050307/e321b5c2/attachment-0001.bin>
On Mar 7, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:> I've always had that problem, but I don't know what could be done > about it. Mail.app simply doesn't read or write anything to the IMAP > server unless it's specifically told to do something. > I heard from someone it was working with Courier, but with my Courier > test server it didn't work. So, apparently it was working with UW-IMAP > before? Perhaps I'll try it too to see if it does something > differently..I just tested this again - I sent mail from Mail.app to two accounts, one of which is running Courier, and one of which is running dovecot 1.0-stable. For both accounts, Mail.app chimed to tell me I had new mail, 1 minute apart (delivery to the dovecot server takes longer because it runs through fetchmail/procmail/spamassassin). It was in the background with my "combined" inbox selected/displayed at the time. The frequency with which it polls the server seems to be dictated by the Preferences > General > "Check for new mail:" interval, which I set to 1 minute for this test. -- Nicholas Riley <njriley at uiuc.edu> | 4111 Siebel Center Department of Computer Science | 201 N. Goodwin Ave. and Medical Scholars Program | Urbana, IL 61801-2302 Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | +1 217 244 2274