dovecot - Jul 2014 - Multiple email clients not in sync

Hello everyone,

I'm not sure if this is an issue with dovecot or my various email 
clients, or my settings.

I'm running 2.2.13 and I have Thunderbird on my desktop and K at mail on my 
android phone. In theory if I delete email on one it should delete it on 
the other. It does delete it on the server - but the other client isn't 
always "aware" of it. Same thing sometimes with read messages. I read
on
one device but the other didn't know it's read unless I shut down and 
restart the app.

Not knowing the details of how this all works I'm assuming there is some 
form of notification that goes on in the background so as to let other 
clients know what other clients do so they can sync up. And that where 
my setup isn't working consistently.

Maybe my expectations are just too high? Maybe I don't have things set 
up correctly?

What am I missing? Thanks in advance.

Am 09.07.2014 17:23, schrieb Marc Perkel:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm not sure if this is an issue with dovecot or my various email
clients, or my settings.
> 
> I'm running 2.2.13 and I have Thunderbird on my desktop and K at mail
on my android phone. In theory if I delete email
> on one it should delete it on the other. It does delete it on the server -
but the other client isn't always
> "aware" of it. Same thing sometimes with read messages. I read on
one device but the other didn't know it's read
> unless I shut down and restart the app.
> 
> Not knowing the details of how this all works I'm assuming there is
some form of notification that goes on in the
> background so as to let other clients know what other clients do so they
can sync up. And that where my setup isn't
> working consistently.
> 
> Maybe my expectations are just too high? Maybe I don't have things set
up correctly?
> 
> What am I missing? Thanks in advance
* do you have imap idle enabled on the server
* do you have imap idle enabled on all clients
* if both is yes - in case of subfolders: make sure enough connections are
allowed
* thunderbird AFAIK needs some tweek to watch all folders for notifications
  too lazy to dig in my configs

however "imap idle" and your software on each end should be a good
start for Google

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