Bug#653249: cyrus-imapd-2.2: IDLE not working?

[Benjamin Seidenberg]

I feel like I noticed this before but never got around to digging into it...
B

On 12/25/2011 02:55 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Package: cyrus-imapd-2.2
> Version: 2.2.13-14+lenny4
> Severity: normal
>
> Using imtest localhost, IDLE does not seem to send any information until I tell it to quit.  I waited c 20 minutes.
>
> $ imtest localhost
> S: * OK corn Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.13-Debian-2.2.13-14+lenny4 server ready
> C: C01 CAPABILITY
> S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 SASL-IR
> S: C01 OK Completed
> C: A01 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5
> # deleted some authentication stuff
> S: A01 OK Success (no protection)
> Authenticated.
> Security strength factor: 0
> a01 select inbox
> * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen Old $NotJunk $Junk JunkRecorded Junk $Label1 $Label2 $Label3 $Label4 $Label5 NotJunk receipt-handled NonJunk $Forwarded $MDNSent)
> * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen Old $NotJunk $Junk JunkRecorded Junk $Label1 $Label2 $Label3 $Label4 $Label5 NotJunk receipt-handled NonJunk $Forwarded $MDNSent \*)]
> * 71166 EXISTS
> * 0 RECENT
> * OK [UNSEEN 6]
> * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1153459907]
> * OK [UIDNEXT 164608]
> a01 OK [READ-WRITE] Completed
> a02 idle
> + idling
> DONE
> * 71168 EXISTS
> * 2 RECENT
> a02 OK Completed
>
> google didn't turn up other examples of this problem.  The spec may
> not require notice in any particular length of time, but IDLE isn't
> too useful unless it pushes notices.
>
> Part of my imapd.conf:
> # Unix domain socket that lmtpd listens on.
> lmtpsocket: /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp
>
> # The idle backend to use for IDLE command.
> # Options: poll (default), idled, no
> # poll doesn't need the idled daemon and is supposed to be more robust.
> # however it doesn't update as quickly as the idled backend does. "no"
> # turns off IDLE support. If set to "idled", you will also need to enable
> # the "idled" entry in cyrus.conf.
> idlemethod: poll
>
> # Unix domain socket that idled listens on.
> idlesocket: /var/run/cyrus/socket/idle
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 5.0.9
>   APT prefers oldstable
>   APT policy: (995, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages cyrus-imapd-2.2 depends on:
> ii  cyrus-common-2.2  2.2.13-14+lenny4       Cyrus mail system (common files)
> ii  libasn1-8-heimdal 1.2.dfsg.1-2.1         Heimdal Kerberos - ASN.1 library
> ii  libc6             2.7-18lenny7           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libcomerr2        1.41.3-1               common error description library
> ii  libdb4.2          4.2.52+dfsg-5          Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
> ii  libgssapi2-heimda 1.2.dfsg.1-2.1         Heimdal Kerberos - GSSAPI support 
> ii  libkrb5-25-heimda 1.2.dfsg.1-2.1         Heimdal Kerberos - libraries
> ii  libroken18-heimda 1.2.dfsg.1-2.1         Heimdal Kerberos - roken support l
> ii  libsasl2-2        2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
> ii  libssl0.9.8       0.9.8g-15+lenny14      SSL shared libraries
> ii  libwrap0          7.6.q-16               Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
>
> cyrus-imapd-2.2 recommends no packages.
>
> cyrus-imapd-2.2 suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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