[Dovecot] Dovecot-alpha1 and Thunderbird Sent problems

[Jeff Ballard]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:35:24 +1000  Nicholas Young wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:00:45PM +1000, Nicholas Young wrote:
> > I have dovecot 1.0alpha1 setup in a semi test environment running on
> > Solaris 2.6.
> > 
> > When using Thunderbird 1.0.6 from Windows occasionally the client will
> > hang after sending a message and before copying it to the Sent folder on
> > dovecot. Sendmail logs indicate that the message has been sent
> > correctly.
> 
> Further research on the net indicates that this may be a problem with
> Thunderbird caching upto 5 imap connections and then using one which is
> closed. I am testing what happens with only 2 connections open on one
> machine at the moment. Looking less and less likely as a dovecot
> problem.
> 
> http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=5728
> 
> Other solutions indicate disabling the Sent folder closing Thunderbird
> and then reenabling the folder stop it from happening again. YMMV

Following that advice didn't help my users...  And for my users this started 
happening when I switched from UW-imapd to dovecot.  I have yet to find a fix 
for them...

-Jeff

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Unix Systems Manager, Computer-Aided Engineering Center