[Dovecot] debian unstable : mutt polling imap mailboxes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Feb 25 19:19:10 EET 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 17:05, Kai Hendry wrote:
> I am accessing my IMAP folder on my ~/Maildir using mutt via Dovecot and
> I have this problem whereby mutt incorrectly reports I have new mail in a
> "mailboxes" polled mailbox.
> 
> This happens all the time when I press the key bound to change mailbox.
> 
> I use courier IMAP at school, and I have not experienced this problem. A
> bug with dovecot or mutt?

It's most likely a Dovecot bug, possibly related to somewhat broken
RECENT count handling. I can't reproduce it though, do you have to tell
mutt somehow to check the new mails?

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