On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 01:34:35PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: > Ed Budd wrote: > >>I'm using the most recent ports for mozilla and courier-imap on an > >> up-to-date FreeBSD-stable. Very often I will not see new messages > >>in a folder until I restart mozilla. I was convinced it was > >>mozilla that was broken, but I've seen similar behavior using > >>Thunderbird on my Windows box. Now I'm not so sure. > > > >How are messages being routed to folders? If you're using some kind > >of server-side filtering make sure the box is checked that says > >"check this folder for new messages" in the properties of each > >folder. If the only filtering is through the user-configured rules in > >mozilla/thunderbird then everything gets delivered to the INBOX (or > >whatever is set up as imap root folder) and then filtered/routed to > >other folders AFTER the client is opened/started. > > > >IOW this may be normal behaviour, not a broken client. > > All the filtering is on the client side, so that is not the problem. > The odd thing is that the client shows that there are new messages in > the folder. But when you click on the folder, none of the new messages > are in the listing. It looks like a caching problem, but I'm not sure > if it is the client or server that is having the problem. > > But thanks for the response.
Hmmm... You might want to give dovecot a try on the server side. It's really rather good. As for IMAP clients: if you've got a spare PHP enabled webserver anywhere, squirrelmail is pretty simple to set up. IMAP is pretty tricky that way: all of the different clients and servers implement only approximately the same protocol and getting everything to agree on a compatible set of quirks can be a bore. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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