[Dovecot] Help! OT: Blackberry IMAP client suggestions/experience needed

[Stewart Dean]

It's been a while so I don't have the logs any more except for what was in my 
Sent folder........
As an example of what I am talking about, here is BB polling every 15 minutes in 
the maillog:
> Mar  5 03:06:09 mercury mail:info imapd[2085096]: Login user=sshore host=bda037.
> bis.na.blackberry.com [216.9.249.37]
> Mar  5 03:06:09 mercury mail:info imapd[2085096]: Logout user=sshore host=bda037
> .bis.na.blackberry.com [216.9.249.37]
> 
> Mar  5 03:20:39 mercury mail:info imapd[2961602]: Login user=sshore host=ten003.
> bis.na.blackberry.com [216.9.249.252]
> Mar  5 03:20:48 mercury mail:info imapd[2961602]: Logout user=sshore host=ten003
> .bis.na.blackberry.com [216.9.249.252]

and here are some clients fighting over the lock
> Mar  6 09:05:48 mercury mail:info imapd[970952]: Killed (lost mailbox lock) user
> =xxxxx host=cpe-24-161-103-11.hvc.res.rr.com [24.161.103.11]
> Mar  6 09:08:04 mercury mail:info imapd[844000]: Killed (lost mailbox lock) user
> =xxxxx host=[10.40.70.71]
> Mar  6 09:08:18 mercury mail:info imapd[2547784]: Killed (lost mailbox lock) use
> r=xxxxx host=cpe-24-161-103-11.hvc.res.rr.com [24.161.103.11]

All I know is that I had some moderately important people screaming at me (I 
even heard the word useless) that the mail service was %^$#ed up.  That after I 
made it dianetically clear (took 2 weeks) to them that there Must Only Ever Be 
One Mail Client Open At A Time, they no longer had problems.

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-13-2008 11:14 AM Knute Johnson spake the following:
>>> so far:
>>> LogicMail...V0.4.0 (not even V1.x, but O.x...is this beta?)
>>> http://www.logicprobe.org/proj/logicmail
>>> http://www.berryreview.com/2007/10/30/faq-alternative-3rd-party-email-applications-for-blackberry/ 
>>>
>>> http://www.berryreview.com/2007/08/22/logicmail-free-imap-pop3-client-for-blackberry/ 
>>>
>>>
>>> in beta, Tiggit
>>> http://www.berryreview.com/2008/02/15/tiggit-beta-another-3rd-part-email-client-for-blackberry/ 
>>>
>>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>> I don't know of any IMAP apps to get for a BB but if you come across 
>>>> a good one, please post a note here.
>>
>> LogicMail looks interesting but it won't do StartTLS which I need.
>>
>> My setup uses mbox and I haven't seen any problems with multiple 
>> clients.  What is the problem that I should be having?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> So am I. The only time I had a problem is if multiple programs are 
> trying to access the mbox file directly at the same time. As long as the 
> multiple clients all go through dovecot, I don't have any problems. In 
> fact, I often leave an instance of thunderbird running over my mailstore 
> at my main office, and will hit the same store from my lappy, or from my 
> other office.
> 
> I have also had thunderbird and outlook running on the same machine 
> looking at the mailstore while I try and reproduce an error that one of 
> my users is having, and although it can sometimes slow down a bit, I 
> don't see any problems.
> 

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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York  12504
sdean at bard.edu  voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035