dovecot - Oct 2009 - meaning of parameter imap_idle_notify_interval??

Hello,

is my understanding of the parameter "imap_idle_notify_interval"
right,
if i say,
it's the time between two point where dovecot tells the client he is
here, and
sould have nothing directly todo with the notification of new mails arrived.

I played with the values around. And the courios is, in thunderbird the
folloing.

set to 30 seconds.

Thunderbird pop up around 25 seconds after the message is deliverd to
the inbox.

set to 60 seconds.

Thunderbird pup up around 50 seconds after the message is deliverd to
the inbox.

I switch over from archiveopteryx, where no such delay was.

Regards,
Ingo

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:28 +0200, Ingo Thierack wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is my understanding of the parameter "imap_idle_notify_interval"
right,
> if i say,
> it's the time between two point where dovecot tells the client he is
> here, and
> sould have nothing directly todo with the notification of new mails
arrived.
Right.
> I played with the values around. And the courios is, in thunderbird the
> folloing.
> 
> set to 30 seconds.
> 
> Thunderbird pop up around 25 seconds after the message is deliverd to
> the inbox.
> 
> set to 60 seconds.
> 
> Thunderbird pup up around 50 seconds after the message is deliverd to
> the inbox.
I don't see how that setting would affect either of these.

Did you build Dovecot with inotify/dnotify/kqueue support? (What does
dovecot --build-options show?) If not, mailbox_idle_check_interval is
what controls how often new mails are checked.
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Here are the requestet information.
It was compiled with inotify which is the default on my system.

First I thought, it was the purpose, that the mailbox dirs was
on an NFS. Then copied to the local disc. But the same.

[root at mail ~]# /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot --build-options
Build options: ioloop=epoll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl
Mail storages: cydir dbox maildir mbox raw shared
SQL drivers: postgresql
Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql
Userdb: nss passwd passwd-file prefetch sql static


[root at mail ~]# /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -n
# 1.2.6: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.3 (Final) ext3
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
listen: *:143
ssl_listen: *:993
ssl_cert_file: /opt/dovecot/etc/ssl/certs/mail.ghostdive.org.crt
ssl_key_file: /opt/dovecot/etc/ssl/private/mail.ghostdive.org.key
disable_plaintext_auth: no
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_greeting: ready.
login_processes_count: 10
mail_max_userip_connections: 50
mail_location: maildir:/mnt/mail/%u/Maildir:INDEX=/var/spool/indexes/%u
mailbox_idle_check_interval: 2
dbox_rotate_size: 4096
dbox_rotate_days: 30
mail_executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/rawlog -b
/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap
imap_idle_notify_interval: 30
lda:
  postmaster_address: postmaster at ghostdive.org
  hostname: mail.ghostdive.org
  mail_plugins: sieve
  mail_plugin_dir: /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda
  sendmail_path: /opt/postfix26/sbin/sendmail
auth default:
  mechanisms: plain cram-md5 digest-md5
  passdb:
    driver: sql
    args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
  userdb:
    driver: sql
    args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
  socket:
    type: listen
    master:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode: 384
      user: mailaccess
      group: mailaccess



Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:28 +0200, Ingo Thierack wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> is my understanding of the parameter
"imap_idle_notify_interval" right,
>> if i say,
>> it's the time between two point where dovecot tells the client he
is
>> here, and
>> sould have nothing directly todo with the notification of new mails
arrived.
>>     
>
> Right.
>
>   
>> I played with the values around. And the courios is, in thunderbird the
>> folloing.
>>
>> set to 30 seconds.
>>
>> Thunderbird pop up around 25 seconds after the message is deliverd to
>> the inbox.
>>
>> set to 60 seconds.
>>
>> Thunderbird pup up around 50 seconds after the message is deliverd to
>> the inbox.
>>     
>
> I don't see how that setting would affect either of these.
>
> Did you build Dovecot with inotify/dnotify/kqueue support? (What does
> dovecot --build-options show?) If not, mailbox_idle_check_interval is
> what controls how often new mails are checked.
>