[imapfilter-devel] IDLE

[Ivan Bajdarvanov]

I am unable to make IDLE work. My code is bellow and also the debug
file shows that the IDLE works. It does receive a response but my Lua
code never executes the lines after

update = account1.Inbox:enter_idle()

Eventually it will time out with:

timeout period expired while waiting to read data

and only then will proceed with the remaining lines of Lua code. It
prints nul for the print(update).

I have also tested the IDLE using telnet to the same server/account
from the same machine running imapfilter. The telnet works fine.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Telnet session
====================

3 select INBOX
* 725 EXISTS
* 33 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 112] Message 112 is first unseen
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 0] UIDs valid
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)]
3 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
5 IDLE
+
* 726 EXISTS
* 34 RECENT
* 727 EXISTS
* 34 RECENT
* 728 EXISTS
* 34 RECENT
* 729 EXISTS
* 34 RECENT
* Session timeout, Server signing off


Connection to host lost.
======End Telnet=====================================




My code
===================
exist, unread, unseen = account1['Inbox']:check_status()
print ("exist: " ..exist)
print ("unread: " .. unread)
print ("unseen: " .. unseen)
update = account1.Inbox:enter_idle()
print(update)
all = account1['Inbox']:is_new()	....

=====END CODE===========

The debug log shows this:
==============
log file: 'log'
getting response (5):

* OK IMAP4rev1 SmarterMail

sending command (5):

1000 NOOP

getting response (5):

1000 OK NOOP completed

sending command (5):

1001 CAPABILITY

getting response (5):

* CAPABILITY IMAP4 IDLE IMAP4rev1

getting response (5):

1001 OK CAPABILITY completed

sending command (5):

1002 LOGIN "ivanb at irove.net" *

getting response (5):

1002 OK LOGIN completed

sending command (5):

1003 STATUS "Inbox" (MESSAGES RECENT UNSEEN)

getting response (5):

* STATUS Inbox (MESSAGES 728 RECENT 33 UNSEEN 110)

getting response (5):

1003 OK STATUS completed

sending command (5):

1004 SELECT "Inbox"

getting response (5):

* 728 EXISTS

getting response (5):

* 33 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 112] Message 112 is first unseen
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 0] UIDs valid
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)]
1004 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed

sending command (5):

1005 IDLE

getting response (5):

+

getting response (5):

* 729 EXISTS

getting response (5):

* 34 RECENT