I've installed ciderwebmail from jessie. (Thanks for the work packaging this webmail app).  It is working well, for the most part.  I like it.  One thing I've noticed is that ciderwebmail doesn't appear to detect new messages.  The count of new messages doesn't seem to change until I click on the inbox in the left navigation bar, forcing it to update.  If I leave the program untouched for a long time, my MTA delivers new messages into my inbox, but ciderwebmail's new message count doesn't change.

I'm not very good with perl. But it looks like ciderwebmail is making use of linux::inotify2.  Not sure if this could be used to update itself to show the presence of new messages.

My imap server is running dovecot (wheezy) with maildir.

Kernel: 3.14.24 (vanilla).
C library: 2.19-18
perl: 5.20.2-3

Thanks, Bryan

Hi Bryan,

Quoting bkw@70mpg.org (2015-05-01 18:35:31)

Thanks for your well-written bugreport.

I will pass this upstream.

I suspect that your suggestion on using inotify2 is inappropriate, as
(if I understand things correctly) that would mean bypassing the IMAP
protocol and require mail storage and web service being on same host:
Use of inotify2 would, as I understand it, be an internal matter for
Dovecot to use - and then use the IMAP protocol to signal need for the
webmail client to wake up and fetch newly appeared content.

But as said, I will forward both the issue and your ideas upstream.


Regards,

 - Jonas