[imp] Weird Problem with New Mail Notifications

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Joe Besko <jbesko at msu.edu>:

>
> I've been trying to track down a problem we've been having with new  
> mail notifications using Horde Webmail v1.2.6.  I have noticed a  
> couple of things,
>
> 1. When I don't have any filters set (using sql driver), I get the  
> notice and sound just fine.
> 2. If I have *any* filter set, the notification does not work (after  
> logging out and logging back in).  If I clear the filter, log out  
> and then log back in, the notification and sound works fine again.
>
> I ran some debugging on these scenarios, and found a possible cause.  
>  When the filters are not run, the IMAP $recent flag is unchanged.   
> But when there are filters to run, the IMAP $recent flag gets  
> changed to zero and I believe imap_check in  
> ingo/lib/IMAP/Search.php:44 is probably causing the $recent flag to  
> be reset to zero.
>
> I was wondering if this is a "bug" and/or something that could be  
> changed without causing the $recent flag from being changed?

This is how IMAP works. IMAP servers reset the recent flag once a  
mailbox has been viewed, and that's necessary to do the filtering  
through IMAP.
Use a different, server-side filter backend to avoid that.

Jan.

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