multiple IMAP sessions when connecting from one client

[lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de]

Zitat von Martin Vegter <martin.vegter at aol.com>:

>> On 08/27/2014 11:22 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Martin Vegter wrote:
>>
>>> This looks like 4 separate sessions are created when I log in from one
>>> client.
>>
>>> Is this normal behavior?
>>> Can somebody please explain why this is so?
>>
>> because Thunderbird wants to access 4 mailboxes simultaneously, e.g. to
>> check or wait for new messages.
>
> That would make sense.
>
> But I have 5 mailboxes in total (Inbox, Sent, Draft, Archive, Trash).
> Although, I suspect Inbox has special status because it is not defined
> together with the other four in 15-mailboxes.conf

This is a client setting, so you have to ask the Thunderbird  
developers why they open that number of connections. Most of the time  
it is done to not block the UI on longer IMAP operations.

Regards

Andreas


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