Hi, I have this intermittant problem.
When sending an email it *sometimes* takes ages before the process finishes. The process seems to hang in moving the message to the sent items" folder". When I disable the IPv6 stack in the network config (this is MS Windows 7), the hanging process immedialetely completes! This makens me think that is has to do with the IP stacks. Another observed effect is a long "rotating wheel" when just klicking on an imap folder before the listing in the right pane updates. Here the same trick solves the problem.
I use Thunderbird on W7 as client and have my mail (3 accounts) on a remote mailserver. I have full control over that server which can become handy... Th emailserver is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with postfix and Dovecot (2.0.19) from the standard repo's. My IPv6 connections is a native IPv6 from my ISP (xs4all.nl). I have no reason to think that the IPv 6 connecition itself is the problem.
Any advise to investigate this problem is welcome.
Egbert Jan, NL
On 4/4/2014 12:07 μμ, Egbert wrote:
When sending an email it*sometimes* takes ages before the process finishes. The process seems to hang in moving the message to the sent items" folder". When I disable the IPv6 stack in the network config (this is MS Windows 7), the hanging process immedialetely completes! This makens me think that is has to do with the IP stacks. Another observed effect is a long "rotating wheel" when just klicking on an imap folder before the listing in the right pane updates. Here the same trick solves the problem.
Something must be incomplete in your local IPv6 configuration. Have you configured IPv6 DNS servers? Are they working?
Troubleshoot your IPv6 network connectivity (check configuration, firewalls, etc.). The behaviour you are describing is typical on systems which are struggling to use the IPv6 protocol (because it has higher priority) and they cannot due to some problem; when IPv6 connectivity attempts timeout, IPv4 is used.
We are using Dovecot for years with IPv6 with various clients and we have no problems at all.
Nick
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