On Sunday 16 December 2018 21:55:23 Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 16 Dec 2018, at 21.26, Pali Rohár <pali.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello! > > > > I found bug in Dovecot's IDLE implementation when virtual mailbox is in > > use. IDLE does not notify about new emails when email appears in newly > > created mailbox and IDLE was issued in virtual folder which matches "*" > > wildcard and that mailbox was created after opening virtual mailbox. > > It actually has nothing to do with IDLE specifically. It's just that the > virtual storage code doesn't try to look for new folders after the virtual > mailbox is opened. > > > To get notifications, it is needed to re-open that "All" mailbox again. > > Right. I don't think this is going to be fixed anytime soon. Quite a lot of > effort and it can be worked around.
How to workaround it? Imap clients uses either IDLE or STATUS or LIST (with STATUS) commands for checking if there is a new messages. But none of these commands reports existence of new message until that virtual folder is re-opened. -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com
