[Dovecot] strange email client problems

[Timo Sirainen]

On 17.3.2005, at 19:18, Gabriel Granger wrote:

> The users get the "loading message" or "opening messages" and the egg 
> timer goes round but never completes.  I managed to clear the problem 
> by getting the user to close their email client and then kill their 
> IMAP processes on the server, when the user logs in again the client 
> responds correctly.

You mean just closing the email client didn't kill the imap process on 
server? Was it using any CPU?

> Is there something I'm doing wrong with the configuration of dovecot? 
> would using MailDir help, I dont want to migrate from Mailbox unless 
> this change will make things better, I understand their are benefits 
> from using MailDir, but I dont know if I will continue to see the same 
> problems if I migrate.

How large are your largest mailboxes? Maildir probably won't help 
anyway with these problems.

> Any help or advise would be great, I should add that everyone is 
> connecting to the server over SSL

But you didn't say what Dovecot version you were using. Most 
importantly, 0.99.x or 1.0-stable/test?
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