Re: Read and manage IMAP mails for me

I'm having some trouble getting this code to recognize incoming mail. It skips right over my @msgs = $imap->sentsince($now); and goes around again. It never detects the incoming mail. The changes I've made are very slight; there's a diff of them in my scratchpad. I'm kind of at a loss. Any thoughts are welcome!

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Re^2: Read and manage IMAP mails for me by NERDVANA (Priest) on Jul 03, 2025 at 16:56 UTC
Hm, IMAP provides a stable view of a mailbox (so that you can delete or move things by numeric index) until the next time you select a folder. In order to see changes to an inbox, you typically need to re-select it. I'm suspicious that the code above doesn't show signs of doing that. I believe there's also a way to get push-notifications from the server, but I don't know the technical details there, just that Thunderbird+Dovecot make that work.	[reply]
Re^3: Read and manage IMAP mails for me by adamsj (Hermit) on Jul 03, 2025 at 17:48 UTC
Good thought! I tried putting `$imap->select( $imap_folder ) or die "IMAP Select Error for imap folder [$imap_folder]: $@";` inside the while loop, and still got no joy. They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it. --Gracie Allen	[reply] [d/l]