Per B. Sederberg wrote: >It's funny how you'll live with something until someone else reports >the same problem... In any case, I've had the same issue for months >and I think I have everything configured correctly. In fact it the >identical configuration worked I pointed to a MailDir, but now that >I'm using IMAP (to gmail, which may be the culprit) it does not work. Hm. It looks like Google's IMAP server is not entirely IMAP compliant. Normally if a new message arrives in a IMAP mailbox it is flagged as \Recent. If I send a mail to my Google mail account, the message arrives but is not marked as recent, but unseen: ,---- | [10:24:23] <- elmo-imap47 status Inbox (recent unseen messages) | [10:24:23] -> * STATUS "Inbox" (MESSAGES 282 RECENT 0 UNSEEN 1) | [10:24:23] -> elmo-imap47 OK Success | *elmo-imap47* OK arrived `---- wl-biff looks for \Recent messages and I think this is the right behavior because you might have unseen (unread) messages in the mailbox you already know they are there. The only way to cope with this misbehavior would be to detect changes in the mailbox size using the total number of messages. The Problem is that this is not reliable: If another client deletes 1 message and you get 1 new message, the total number of messages won't change. -- David -- OpenPGP... 0x99ADB83B5A4478E6 Jabber.... dmjena@jabber.org Email..... dmaus@ictsoc.de
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