Update button is greyed out

[Allan Lewis]

I'm using the latest version of mail-notification in Edgy and, for some reason, the update button on the right-click menu is greyed out (i.e. disabled). I've been using this applet for a while and it's worked fine so far - I only use it to check my main account, which is on an IMAP server.

I tried re-installing from Synaptic and that didn't help. I could try "removing completely"/purging and re-installing if no-one's aware of this bug - but that can wait.

[Allan Lewis (een4aml)]

I ran mail-notification with the "-i" option and got the following output:
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mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: resolving een4aml.imap.leeds.ac.uk
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: connecting to een4aml.imap.leeds.ac.uk (129.11.21.12) port 143
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: connected successfully
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS] mailgrp2 IMAP4rev1 2006c.374 at Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:04:15 +0000 (GMT)
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: > a000 LOGIN "een4aml" "richie41"
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < a000 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ IDLE UIDPLUS NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY UNSELECT SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] User een4aml authenticated
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: > a001 EXAMINE "INBOX"
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < * 626 EXISTS
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < * 0 RECENT
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1122575355] UID validity status
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < * OK [UIDNEXT 6809] Predicted next UID
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < * FLAGS (NonJunk Junk $MDNSent $Forwarded \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Permanent flags
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < a001 OK [READ-ONLY] EXAMINE completed
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: > a002 SEARCH UNSEEN
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < * SEARCH
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < a002 OK SEARCH completed
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: > a003 IDLE
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < + Waiting for DONE
mail-notification-INFO: Leeds Mail: < * OK Timeout in 30 minutes
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(The last line appeared a few minutes after the rest.)

So, it seems that my IMAP server has returned an "IDLE" but the applet is waiting for a "DONE"...

[Allan Lewis (een4aml)]

Ok, I worked this one out myself :)

It's just that the IDLE function doesn't work properly - either in the applet or on my IMAP server. Simple!

[Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito)]

The applet needs to give the user confirmation of the IDLE signal and stop waiting.

Is it still greyed out after it hits timeout?

[Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito)]

Fixed as of gnome 2.20