Re: Multiple email clients not in sync
Am 09.07.2014 17:23, schrieb Marc Perkel: Hello everyone, I'm not sure if this is an issue with dovecot or my various email clients, or my settings. I'm running 2.2.13 and I have Thunderbird on my desktop and K@mail on my android phone. In theory if I delete email on one it should delete it on the other. It does delete it on the server - but the other client isn't always aware of it. Same thing sometimes with read messages. I read on one device but the other didn't know it's read unless I shut down and restart the app. Not knowing the details of how this all works I'm assuming there is some form of notification that goes on in the background so as to let other clients know what other clients do so they can sync up. And that where my setup isn't working consistently. Maybe my expectations are just too high? Maybe I don't have things set up correctly? What am I missing? Thanks in advance * do you have imap idle enabled on the server * do you have imap idle enabled on all clients * if both is yes - in case of subfolders: make sure enough connections are allowed * thunderbird AFAIK needs some tweek to watch all folders for notifications too lazy to dig in my configs however imap idle and your software on each end should be a good start for Google signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Multiple email clients not in sync
On 7/9/2014 9:49 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.07.2014 17:23, schrieb Marc Perkel: Hello everyone, I'm not sure if this is an issue with dovecot or my various email clients, or my settings. I'm running 2.2.13 and I have Thunderbird on my desktop and K@mail on my android phone. In theory if I delete email on one it should delete it on the other. It does delete it on the server - but the other client isn't always aware of it. Same thing sometimes with read messages. I read on one device but the other didn't know it's read unless I shut down and restart the app. Not knowing the details of how this all works I'm assuming there is some form of notification that goes on in the background so as to let other clients know what other clients do so they can sync up. And that where my setup isn't working consistently. Maybe my expectations are just too high? Maybe I don't have things set up correctly? What am I missing? Thanks in advance * do you have imap idle enabled on the server * do you have imap idle enabled on all clients * if both is yes - in case of subfolders: make sure enough connections are allowed * thunderbird AFAIK needs some tweek to watch all folders for notifications too lazy to dig in my configs however imap idle and your software on each end should be a good start for Google Thanks for your help. How do I turn on idle on the server?
Re: Multiple email clients not in sync
On 7/9/2014 9:49 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.07.2014 17:23, schrieb Marc Perkel: Hello everyone, I'm not sure if this is an issue with dovecot or my various email clients, or my settings. I'm running 2.2.13 and I have Thunderbird on my desktop and K@mail on my android phone. In theory if I delete email on one it should delete it on the other. It does delete it on the server - but the other client isn't always aware of it. Same thing sometimes with read messages. I read on one device but the other didn't know it's read unless I shut down and restart the app. Not knowing the details of how this all works I'm assuming there is some form of notification that goes on in the background so as to let other clients know what other clients do so they can sync up. And that where my setup isn't working consistently. Maybe my expectations are just too high? Maybe I don't have things set up correctly? What am I missing? Thanks in advance * do you have imap idle enabled on the server * do you have imap idle enabled on all clients * if both is yes - in case of subfolders: make sure enough connections are allowed * thunderbird AFAIK needs some tweek to watch all folders for notifications too lazy to dig in my configs however imap idle and your software on each end should be a good start for Google Yes - server and all email clients do IDLE. And it does seem to work sometime. My real question is if it can work all the time or are my expectations too high?
Re: Multiple email clients not in sync
Am 09.07.2014 20:44, schrieb Marc Perkel: On 7/9/2014 9:49 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.07.2014 17:23, schrieb Marc Perkel: Hello everyone, I'm not sure if this is an issue with dovecot or my various email clients, or my settings. I'm running 2.2.13 and I have Thunderbird on my desktop and K@mail on my android phone. In theory if I delete email on one it should delete it on the other. It does delete it on the server - but the other client isn't always aware of it. Same thing sometimes with read messages. I read on one device but the other didn't know it's read unless I shut down and restart the app. Not knowing the details of how this all works I'm assuming there is some form of notification that goes on in the background so as to let other clients know what other clients do so they can sync up. And that where my setup isn't working consistently. Maybe my expectations are just too high? Maybe I don't have things set up correctly? What am I missing? Thanks in advance * do you have imap idle enabled on the server * do you have imap idle enabled on all clients * if both is yes - in case of subfolders: make sure enough connections are allowed * thunderbird AFAIK needs some tweek to watch all folders for notifications too lazy to dig in my configs however imap idle and your software on each end should be a good start for Google Yes - server and all email clients do IDLE. And it does seem to work sometime. My real question is if it can work all the time or are my expectations too high? there may be devices between clients and server which are closing long living connections and especially in case of mobile devices the client is in charge to keep connections alive if the device moves to a different cell, switch betwenen WLAN/3G and so on on the server side play around with tcp keep alive could help add or cahnge the following values in /etc/sysctl.conf followed by sysctl -p net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 90 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl = 5 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes = 2 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
