On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Joel Reicher wrote:
I run a small home mail server for my family. One of them uses a
Blackberry to access her email. In order to permit a "burp" to happen
from time-to-time, could I occasionally bring down uw-imap, physically
unplug my Ethernet, bring up uw-imap and wait a while (?) for a burp to
happen, then plug in the ethernet? A pain, but I could do that once
every few months......
That's probably overkill.
And won't work, either.
Each IMAP session is a separate process; there is no central mechanism to
"bring up". What's more, the burp will only happen when there is one (and
only one) session open on that mailbox; thus having the Ethernet
disconnected will do no good since there won't be any sessions!
I would think that killing only those imapd
processes owned by the particular user, followed by any kind of
read/write opening of the mailbox should burp it.
Yes, for mix format. Opening the mailbox in Alpine and then closing it
should also do the trick.
mbx format is a bit more complicated, but hopefully people are moving away
from mbx.
Nobody should be using traditional UNIX format (mbox format) for a mailbox
that is accessed by a BlackBerry.
I think even something as benign as a "mailutil check" would do the trick.
Nope, because "mailutil check" is readonly.
Try the imapd patch that I posted to the list a few weeks ago. It's a
crude hack, but it ought to work.
I did a somewhat better patch in my server; it only does the hack when the
client is a BlackBerry. It definitely works for my BlackBerry.
The real solution is more work. I've worked out what needs to be done,
and will get around to it when I have some spare time (hah!). It's too
complex to be a patch for UW IMAP though.
-- Mark --
http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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