On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 07:12:05AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
I know this is cruel, but I figured out a way to break dovecot, temporarily. The really great news is that it recovers nicely.
I'm also not sure if anything can be done about this, since I've seen the same thing happen with courier-imap, uw-imap, and maybe cyrus-imap. I used cyrus-imap for such a short period of time that I didn't get to really test it much.
how to... (this was done on a fast ethernet network) get a folder with some 1,000+ unread/unseen emails. pop in with mozilla mail and wait for it to download all the mail information from ther server. press and hold the delete key. After about 300 emails being deleted, the imap server will appear to "freeze" and the "M" will keep cycling as if it's doing something.
Sounds to me that you found a way to break Mozilla, not dovecot and courier-imap and uw-imap identically :-)
Or do you have an example of an IMAP server which doesn't cause Mozilla to freeze in this way?
Regards,
Brian.