[Dovecot] mbox snarf plugin + idle

[Jonathan Siegle]

I'm having a problem with mbox snarf not looking at /var/spool/mail/ when in idle mode thus never giving me a RECENT line even though there are new messages in /var/spool/mail/ . Here are the imap commands to reproduce the problem:

1 login userid password
2 select inbox
3 idle





# /usr/ladmin2/sbin/dovecot -n
# 1.2.alpha5: /usr/ladmin2/etc/dovecot.conf

# OS: AIX 3 0001112AD300
syslog_facility: local0
protocols: imap
listen: *:2222
ssl: no
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /usr/ladmin2/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/ladmin2/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_greeting: Dovecot ready.
login_processes_count: 30
max_mail_processes: 4096
mail_location: mbox:%h/new:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/14/%u
mmap_disable: yes
dotlock_use_excl: no
mbox_write_locks: fcntl
mbox_lazy_writes: no
mail_plugins: mbox_snarf
imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail
auth default:
  mechanisms: plain gssapi
  krb5_keytab: /etc/krb5/dovecot.keytab
  gssapi_hostname: $ALL
  verbose: yes
  debug: yes
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
plugin:
  mbox_snarf: /gpfs/inbox/14/%u


Thanks,
Jonathan

When I run "select inbox" it does see my messages in /var/spool/mail/ and moves them over fine. When I truss the process, I see it only running stat calls on my "mbox- snarf" file. To get new messages I issue DONE, CLOSE, and SELECT INBOX. I'm not sure why it is reporting alpha5 two lines below. I did an hg pull just the other day and see 1.2.beta1 in the output of hg tags. Warning: fd limit 2000 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 4224). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings

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