Bug#783962: Ciderwebmail doesn't appear to automatically check for new messages

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Bryan,

Quoting bkw at 70mpg.org (2015-05-01 18:35:31)
> I've installed ciderwebmail from jessie. (Thanks for the work 
> packaging this webmail app).  It is working well, for the most part.  
> I like it.  One thing I've noticed is that ciderwebmail doesn't appear 
> to detect new messages.  The count of new messages doesn't seem to 
> change until I click on the inbox in the left navigation bar, forcing 
> it to update.  If I leave the program untouched for a long time, my 
> MTA delivers new messages into my inbox, but ciderwebmail's new 
> message count doesn't change.
> 
> I'm not very good with perl. But it looks like ciderwebmail is making 
> use of linux::inotify2.  Not sure if this could be used to update 
> itself to show the presence of new messages.
> 
> My imap server is running dovecot (wheezy) with maildir.

Thanks for your well-written bugreport.

I will pass this upstream.

I suspect that your suggestion on using inotify2 is inappropriate, as 
(if I understand things correctly) that would mean bypassing the IMAP 
protocol and require mail storage and web service being on same host: 
Use of inotify2 would, as I understand it, be an internal matter for 
Dovecot to use - and then use the IMAP protocol to signal need for the 
webmail client to wake up and fetch newly appeared content.

But as said, I will forward both the issue and your ideas upstream.


Regards,

 - Jonas

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