dovecot - May 2009 - Imap notifications in IDLE

Hi,

could you please tell me if there is a way, to make dovecot notify my 
mail client of new messages in inbox subfolders?
I'm using fdm to fetch mails into maildir and proper subfolders. So far, 
when idleing mozilla gets a notification when new message arrives in 
INBOX, but if mail is fetched into other folder I have to click on it to 
see if there is a new message. I've checked thunderbird imap log to 
check if this is dovecot or TB issue.
Is there any way to force dovecot to monitor other folders?

Regards,

V



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Jaros?aw Przyby?owicz schreef:
> Hi,
> 
> could you please tell me if there is a way, to make dovecot notify my
> mail client of new messages in inbox subfolders?
> I'm using fdm to fetch mails into maildir and proper subfolders. So
far,
> when idleing mozilla gets a notification when new message arrives in
> INBOX, but if mail is fetched into other folder I have to click on it to
> see if there is a new message. I've checked thunderbird imap log to
> check if this is dovecot or TB issue.
> Is there any way to force dovecot to monitor other folders?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> V
> 
> 
> 
This is a TB 'issue', it does not check other folders than inbox for new
mail. Problem can be fixed by setting
"mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new" to true in Config editor.

--
Regards,
	Tom

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On May 1, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Jaros?aw Przyby?owicz wrote:
> could you please tell me if there is a way, to make dovecot notify  
> my mail client of new messages in inbox subfolders?
No. IMAP protocol doesn't really allow that. Dovecot could try to send  
STATUS events, but I've no idea if TB would accept them. My guess is  
that it would simply ignore them. Anyway it'll take a while before  
Dovecot can easily do that.

Jaros?aw Przyby?owicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> could you please tell me if there is a way, to make dovecot notify my 
> mail client of new messages in inbox subfolders?
> I'm using fdm to fetch mails into maildir and proper subfolders. So
far,
> when idleing mozilla gets a notification when new message arrives in 
> INBOX, but if mail is fetched into other folder I have to click on it to 
> see if there is a new message. I've checked thunderbird imap log to 
> check if this is dovecot or TB issue.
> Is there any way to force dovecot to monitor other folders?
Right click the folder, select Properties.  In the 'General Information'
tab
of the window that appears, select 'Check this folder for new messages'.

Do this for each folder your LDA delivers into.

Really, it's the only way to do it, and it means an extra IMAP connection 
per folder.

-- 
Curtis Maloney
cmaloney at cardgate.net