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-applic...
http://www.berryreview.com/2007/08/22/logicmail-free-imap-pop3-client-for-bl...
in beta, Tiggit http://www.berryreview.com/2008/02/15/tiggit-beta-another-3rd-part-email-cli...
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@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035