Bug#783962: Ciderwebmail doesn't appear to automatically check for new messages

[bkw at 70mpg.org]

Package: ciderwebmail
Version: 1.05-5

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