On 17 Dec 2018, at 10.44, Pali Rohár <pali.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
I mean, workaround is for the user to just reopen the folder. I think it's not very common for this situation to happen and cause problems?
