tried the telnet approach. patched in the logline. [i...@mail ~]$ telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5] ready. a login xxxx xxxx a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH] Logged in b select inbox * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk \*)] Flags permitted. * 13 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1252958392] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 37] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 81] Highest b OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. c idle + idling
after idling displayed, i sent a message to the account. see the message delivered to the inbox in my syslog 2009-10-27 23:35:20 | dovecot: | deliver(i...@ghostdive.org): sieve: msgid=<ac2e3a8f0910271535q4c5096a8w56d31e117cb7b...@mail.gmail.com>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' in logfile: <<<b select inbox >>> >>> >>> <<<c idle >>> out logfile: * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-27 23:34:55 <<<a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-E XTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH] Logged in >>> >>> >>> * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-27 23:35:00 <<<* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk \*)] Flags permitted. * 13 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1252958392] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 37] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 81] Highest b OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. >>> >>> >>> <<<+ idling >>> >>> >>> * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-27 23:38:03 <<<* OK Still here >>> Timo Sirainen schrieb: > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 09:55 +0100, Ingo Thierack wrote: > >> sorry to say, no change. >> Takes more then 2 minutes until tb register there is a new mail. >> >> I'm the only with this behavior? >> > > At least only one who has noticed it.. > > >> Could there be an problem with the inotify implementation in the >> CentOS-Kernel? >> > > I doubt it, but you could try if the attached patch logs a line whenever > a new message arrives. If it does get logged and Dovecot doesn't send an > EXISTS line to Thunderbird immediately, there's a bug. If that does > happen, the next step could be to try it manually instead of using > Thunderbird, e.g.: > > telnet localhost 143 > a login username password > b select inbox > c idle > > and then see if the EXISTS gets sent. >