Here are the requestet information. It was compiled with inotify which is the default on my system.
First I thought, it was the purpose, that the mailbox dirs was on an NFS. Then copied to the local disc. But the same. [r...@mail ~]# /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=epoll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl Mail storages: cydir dbox maildir mbox raw shared SQL drivers: postgresql Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: nss passwd passwd-file prefetch sql static [r...@mail ~]# /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.2.6: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.3 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 ssl_cert_file: /opt/dovecot/etc/ssl/certs/mail.ghostdive.org.crt ssl_key_file: /opt/dovecot/etc/ssl/private/mail.ghostdive.org.key disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: ready. login_processes_count: 10 mail_max_userip_connections: 50 mail_location: maildir:/mnt/mail/%u/Maildir:INDEX=/var/spool/indexes/%u mailbox_idle_check_interval: 2 dbox_rotate_size: 4096 dbox_rotate_days: 30 mail_executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/rawlog -b /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap imap_idle_notify_interval: 30 lda: postmaster_address: postmas...@ghostdive.org hostname: mail.ghostdive.org mail_plugins: sieve mail_plugin_dir: /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda sendmail_path: /opt/postfix26/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: plain cram-md5 digest-md5 passdb: driver: sql args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mailaccess group: mailaccess Timo Sirainen schrieb: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:28 +0200, Ingo Thierack wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> is my understanding of the parameter "imap_idle_notify_interval" right, >> if i say, >> it's the time between two point where dovecot tells the client he is >> here, and >> sould have nothing directly todo with the notification of new mails arrived. >> > > Right. > > >> I played with the values around. And the courios is, in thunderbird the >> folloing. >> >> set to 30 seconds. >> >> Thunderbird pop up around 25 seconds after the message is deliverd to >> the inbox. >> >> set to 60 seconds. >> >> Thunderbird pup up around 50 seconds after the message is deliverd to >> the inbox. >> > > I don't see how that setting would affect either of these. > > Did you build Dovecot with inotify/dnotify/kqueue support? (What does > dovecot --build-options show?) If not, mailbox_idle_check_interval is > what controls how often new mails are checked. >