Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-29 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2009-12-29, Florian Effenberger (flo...@gmail.com) wrote: > ok, thanks for the insight! I guess it's really the best choice to > just update to a recent system and see if things work. ;-) Just be sure to read the update notes on the wiki carefully: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading > Thanks

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Charles, >> I guess that requires recompilation of the package? > > I don't think so, but maybe the old 1.0rc15 only supported dnotify? > > Anyway, inotify/dnotify is not part of dovecot, it is part of the linux > kernel (2.6.13+) - dovecot only makes USE of it, so it will work with > either. >

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-29 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2009-12-29 7:23 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: >>> Seems I am lucky then: >>> Build options: ioloop=poll notify=dnotify >> dnotify is deprecated (and buggy)... use inotify on the server instead. > I guess that requires recompilation of the package? I don't think so, but maybe the old 1.0rc15 o

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
>> Seems I am lucky then: >> Build options: ioloop=poll notify=dnotify > > dnotify is deprecated (and buggy)... use inotify on the server instead. I guess that requires recompilation of the package?

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-29 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2009-12-29, Florian Effenberger (flo...@gmail.com) wrote: > Seems I am lucky then: > Build options: ioloop=poll notify=dnotify dnotify is deprecated (and buggy)... use inotify on the server instead. -- Best regards, Charles

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Timo, > Which v1.0? (Which one's Debian 4.0? :) I wish Debian used Ubuntu-style > year+month numbers as versions. The only Debian versions I remember are > stable, testing and unstable..) :-) It's pretty old, dovecot --version returns 1.0.rc15 > Anyway, I don't think there have been any act

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Tobi, > I tested it with Dovecot 1.1.6 and Thunderbird 3. The STATUS command > seems to be returned correctly. thanks a lot! Guess I'll give it a try on a new machine or with a backport. Currently in a "never touch a running system" mood, especially between the years when I have vacation :-)

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 28.12.2009, at 8.30, Florian Effenberger wrote: > According to > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Checking_for_new_messages_in_other_folders_-_Thunderbird > it should be sufficient to enable one setting -- given that the IMAP > server returns the STATUS command correctly. I still run Dovecot 1.0 > (f

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-28 Thread tobi
Am 28.12.2009 16:14, schrieb Florian Effenberger: > Hi Tobias, > > >> This might be help you... >> **quote** >> If Thunderbird doesn't recognize that a folder contains unread messages try >> setting mail.imap.use_status_for_biff true. It causes Thunderbird to >> explicitly select each folder to

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Tobias, > * "Dovecot is standards compliant. Dovecot v1.1 passes all IMAP server > standard compliancy > tests while most other servers fail many of them." [..] > > Hope, this answers your question. Maybe you should use a recent version of > Dovecot (stable is 1.2.9) > and not v1.0 indeed, I

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-28 Thread Tobias Lang
Am 28.12.2009 um 16:14 schrieb Florian Effenberger: > Hi Tobias, > >> This might be help you... >> **quote** >> If Thunderbird doesn't recognize that a folder contains unread messages try >> setting mail.imap.use_status_for_biff true. It causes Thunderbird to >> explicitly select each folder to

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Tobias, > This might be help you... > **quote** > If Thunderbird doesn't recognize that a folder contains unread messages try > setting mail.imap.use_status_for_biff true. It causes Thunderbird to > explicitly select each folder to update the message summaries, rather than > using the STATUS co

Re: [Dovecot] checking all folders for new mail (IMAP STATUS command)

2009-12-28 Thread Tobias
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:30:14 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hello, > > I use Thunderbird as IMAP client and do a lot of server-side filtering > with Sieve scripts. To be notified of new mails, I want to check all > folders (a lot of them...) at once for new mails, and not only the > inbox. >