idled too fast?

[Ken Murchison]

Luc Germain wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm testing cyrus imapd 2.1.7 on a Pentium-3 1.4 GHz system running redhat
> 7.3. I have compiled with idled activated.
> 
> When using Outlook 2000 on Win98SE as a client, Outlook never see the latest
> mail arrived in the inbox folder. I monitored the inbox folder content (from
> the command prompt) and the log in /var/imap/log, and when a new mail
> arrive, the IDLE command stop and warn that new mail is available. Then
> Outlook immediatly ask for all the new mail (UID FETCH 115:*) but cyrus does
> not list the last one that just arrived (UID 116).
> 
> I'm guessing that the IDLE command warns the client too soon, before the
> last message is really included in the cyrus.index file so Outlook does not
> see it.
> 
> Is it possible? If so, is it possible to change IDLED so it warns the client
> only after the mail is really delivered? (Or at least add a small delay to
> IDLED)
> 
> Note that I didn't see that problem when testing cyrus imapd 2.1.4 on a
> Pentium 3 1.2 GHz system running redhat 7.2
> 
> Thanks for any help with this.


Try this patch and see if it makes a difference.


Index: mailbox.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /afs/andrew/system/cvs/src/cyrus/imap/mailbox.c,v
retrieving revision 1.136
diff -u -c -r1.136 mailbox.c
cvs server: conflicting specifications of output style
*** mailbox.c	2002/08/23 17:59:25	1.136
--- mailbox.c	2002/08/27 21:12:49
***************
*** 1162,1169 ****
      
      assert(mailbox->index_lock_count != 0);
  
-     if (updatenotifier) updatenotifier(mailbox);
- 
  #if 0
      if (acappush_sock != -1) {
  	acapmbdata_t acapdata;
--- 1162,1167 ----
***************
*** 1212,1217 ****
--- 1210,1217 ----
  	/* xxx can we unroll the acap send??? */
  	return IMAP_IOERROR;
      }
+ 
+     if (updatenotifier) updatenotifier(mailbox);
  
      return 0;
  }

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