Re: [Dovecot] sluggish updating of gnome mail-notification?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 19.7.2007, at 19.58, Greg Troxel wrote:

Gnus fixed a bug in the last few months where exiting a group didn't
unselect the folder and thus didn't necessarily push read marks back.

"push read marks back"? With mboxes the message flags aren't written to mbox file until CHECK, EXPUNGE, UNSELECT, SELECT or LOGOUT command, but as long as you're using Dovecot's index files other Dovecot instances will see the changes immediately. Or are you saying that Gnus doesn't send flag changes to server at all before it unselects the mailbox?

I just tried this and thunderbird was also slow in showing the mail

to show the message as read, but with a 30s lag.

mail-notification is supposed to use IDLE if available.  Sometimes it
withdraws new-mail claims at the right time.

read. marking the message read in thunderbird caused mail- notification

This setting controls how often Dovecot checks for changes:

#mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30



src/lib/ioloop-notify-kqueue.c:

        if (fstat(fd, &sb) < 0) {

                (void)close(fd);
                return NULL;
        }
        if (!S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode)) {
                (void)close(fd);
                return NULL;
        }

With Maildir you should be able to notice the changes immediately if you compiled with --with-notify=kqueue. It should actually work with mboxes too, except there's an extra check that prevents it from working: i_error("fstat(%d, %s) for kq notify failed: %m", fd, path); Removing all this code would help. I guess I should do that change to v1.0.3 too.

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