On 10 Mar 2019, at 10.14, Kostya Vasilyev via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > > My mail is stored under ~/mail/.imap (not sure what this format is called), I > mean not "single file mbox". > > I have not changed any IDLE related config settings: > > doveconf | grep -i idle > default_idle_kill = 1 mins > director_ping_idle_timeout = 30 secs > imap_idle_notify_interval = 2 mins > imapc_max_idle_time = 29 mins > mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 secs > > What can I do to make Dovecot notify IDLE clients about flags changes - more > quickly? Preferably near-instant?
It should simply just work, assuming there aren't any weird inotify limits, but you should get errors logged about reaching those. You could see if it makes any difference to set mailbox_idle_check_interval=1s
