Recovering from imap.IDLE fail

[espro1]

Hello,

I use imapfilter just for IMAP IDLE: when I get a new email it fires a script. A few months ago imapfilter would die every 8 hours or so and I would have to manually restart. I finally got around to checking the changelog and I see that how recovery is done was reworked a few months ago.

I've been trying to get enter_idle() to recover using the new functionality but I'm not making any progress. As you will be able to infer, I don't really know what I'm doing.

Here is what my script used to do:

while my_account.INBOX:enter_idle() do 
   os.execute("/path/to/script")
end

I just borrowed this from somewhere else but it seemed to work well enough.

I've tried a bunch of things and I'll just list a couple. Following the examples in the samples/extend.lua page:

function doidle ()
   my_account:enter_idle()
   os.execute("/path/to/script")
end

while true do
   recover (doidle)
end

Sort of combining the above with what I had earlier:

while recover(my_account.INBOX:enter_idle()) do 
   os.execute("/path/to/script
end

I think I am just fundamentally misunderstanding how recover() and/or enter_idle() work. Any help is greatly appreciate.

Love imapfilter by the way. Before I found it I was getting imap idle through some node.js script and it was extremely flaky. imapfilter has been absolutely solid for me.