293668 - IMAP messages downloaded automatically even when not configured

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Rob Siklos [:robzilla]]

I have two accounts set up - 1 IMAP and 1 POP3.  For the IMAP account, I have
both "Check for new messages at startup" and "Check for new messages every X
minutes" UNchecked - for the POP3 account, they ARE checked.

Every once in a while, I get a notification saying there are new messages on my
IMAP account - but this should not be, because it should not be checked
automatically.

Using Thunderbird version 1.0.2

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

does your server support the idle command? If so, in your advanced imap server
settings, you can turn off thunderbird's use of the idle command, if you don't
want to get notified of new mail.

Comment 2

[Rob Siklos [:robzilla]]

Ok, when I did that, I stopped getting the notification messages as I wanted,
but it's only a workaround, so this is still a bug right?

Side note: in our setup, multiple clients are connected to the same account on
the IMAP server (so we can all monitor our global support inbox). Previously,
the inboxes were synchronized, meaning that messages got downloaded to all the
clients.  However, when I turned off the IDLE functionality, all the messages
went to the inbox on my client (when I did a manual send/receive), and didn't
appear in anyone else's mail client.  I'm not sure if I'm misusing IMAP, but it
sounds like the IDLE functionality needs to stay on in my case.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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