mozilla and courier-imap

[Ed Budd]

Richard Coleman wrote:
> I'm using the most recent ports for mozilla and courier-imap on an 
> up-to-date FreeBSD-stable.  Very often I will not see new messages in a 
> folder until I restart mozilla.  I was convinced it was mozilla that was 
> broken, but I've seen similar behavior using Thunderbird on my Windows 
> box.  Now I'm not so sure.
> 
> Anyone else seen this?


How are messages being routed to folders? If you're using some kind of 
server-side filtering make sure the box is checked that says "check this 
folder for new messages" in the properties of each folder. If the only 
filtering is through the user-configured rules in mozilla/thunderbird 
then everything gets delivered to the INBOX (or whatever is set up as 
imap root folder) and then filtered/routed to other folders AFTER the 
client is opened/started.

IOW this may be normal behaviour, not a broken client.




> 
> What is another decent IMAP client in ports?


IMHO thunderbird is one of the best for graphical imap clients - lean 
but featureful at the same time. I like Sylpheed as well.

Hope that helps