On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 06:23 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 10:19 +0100, sophana wrote: > > Ok thanks. I did bring the source with apt-get source cyrus-imapd > > Then I rebuilt the rpmsource with > > rpmbuild -ba --define='IDLED 1' --define='SEEN_DB skiplist' cyrus-imapd.spec > > > > Now Idled works just fine. My emails now appear instantly. > > > > But my question is: > > Why idled is disabled by default? It seems to be working great. > > In CentOS, the why question is easy :) > > We build it exactly as is comes from the upstream provider so as to > maintain the packages like they are in the upstream product ... even if > those are not the best options. > > > Does anybody knows if there are drawbacks in using idled? > > That I am not sure about ... taking a look, I found this in the change > log: > > ----------------------------------- > Mon Nov 25 13:00:00 2002 Simon Matter > - changed default build option for IDLED to off > - included some useful info in README.* > > Thu Nov 21 13:00:00 2002 Simon Matter > - added build time option for IDLED, thank you Roland Pope > ----------------------------------- > > SO ... that decision is upstream of RedHat as well (as to IDLED being > not enabled in the default build). I can't find any reason why it is > that way, as far as negative issues are concerned. ---- cyrus-imapd is one of the few packages that I go out of band to get and use Simon's SRPM's directly from Simon (available from here) http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/cyrus-imapd/ because he incorporates a much wider array of the 'auto' patches such as autosieve (which I find especially useful) - patches are described here... http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/ and yes, I knew that idled was working in his rpms. Apparently at the time that Red Hat embraced his rpms, different decisions reigned. Craig