Switched to using /home/user/Maildir and, yes, I think you're totally right.
With the changed location:
Roundcube seems to work as it generates much more traffic with Dovecot -
lots of opening and closing of connections and (when re-armed) the
incrontab rule is triggered as you would expect it
On 10/18/2014 05:39 PM, c128 mail wrote:
Bit more investigation...
So - the incrontab rule seems to work to the extent that if I directly
"ls" the cur folder on the system then it's triggered.
However, the only way I seem to be able to be able to get it to
trigger from a mail client (I use b
Thanks - not so off-topic at all, just looking for a good solution
really to move away from using crontab to pull every 2 minutes.
I'm currently using getmail to pull from about 10 accounts - haven't
used fetchmail for quite some time, but that's definitely something to
look into.
Semi-relat
Maybe off-topic, still: (If your remote server is imap,) why not use
fetchmail?
Here's a mangled/working /etc/fetchmailrc for an SSL imap account:
poll smtp.provider.net protocol IMAP port 993
user 'som...@somewhere.com' is 'someone' here
password 'MyPass123'
folder 'INBOX'
fetchal
Bit more investigation...
So - the incrontab rule seems to work to the extent that if I directly
"ls" the cur folder on the system then it's triggered.
However, the only way I seem to be able to be able to get it to trigger
from a mail client (I use both Thunderbird and Roundcube) is by
perf
Thanks for trying that.
I'm running:
Ubuntu 14.04, Linux 3.4.79 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 14 18:19:18 CST 2014
armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
incrontab 0.5.10
Just found that if I "ls" that directory, the rule is fired. So - I
suspect incrontab is fine.
Is this an oddity of Thunderbird acce
On 10/18/2014 03:26 PM, c128 mail wrote:
Just re-tried this, and it doesn't seem to fire getmail on access for me.
My incrontab is as follows:
/home/user/Maildir/cur/ IN_ALL_EVENTS,IN_ONESHOT /home/user/bin/mvmail.sh
The incrontab rule does work, but only if I make a physical change in
/home/u
Just re-tried this, and it doesn't seem to fire getmail on access for me.
My incrontab is as follows:
/home/user/Maildir/cur/ IN_ALL_EVENTS,IN_ONESHOT /home/user/bin/mvmail.sh
The incrontab rule does work, but only if I make a physical change in
/home/user/Maildir/cur/ e.g. by moving a mail fro
Yeah, I see what you mean - it should trigger by IN_ACCESS (from
IN_ALL_EVENTS) shouldn't it. I hadn't previously scanned over the full
set of events:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man5/incrontab.5.html
I'll set this up again and report back one way or another.
Thanks.
On 18/
On 10/18/2014 02:38 PM, c128 mail wrote:
> What exactly did happen?
Oh, yeah, didn't make that clear ;-)
Nothing happened...not without coaxing.
If I forced a change to the directory, then it worked - but there
wouldn't be a change to the directory in normal operation, other than
by mail pop
> What exactly did happen?
Oh, yeah, didn't make that clear ;-)
Nothing happened...not without coaxing.
If I forced a change to the directory, then it worked - but there
wouldn't be a change to the directory in normal operation, other than by
mail population?
On 18/10/14 19:28, Gedalya wrot
On 10/18/2014 01:24 PM, c128 mail wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently running getmail in a cron job every 2 minutes, so I was
quite intrigued by this on the wiki:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/TriggerGetmailOnIMAPAccess
Thing is - I couldn't see how it would work and, when I tried it, it
didn't work
Hi,
I'm currently running getmail in a cron job every 2 minutes, so I was
quite intrigued by this on the wiki:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/TriggerGetmailOnIMAPAccess
Thing is - I couldn't see how it would work and, when I tried it, it
didn't work (at least not for me).
It details using
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