[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99.14 and imaps (SSL) "hangs"

[Jon]

Have you tried another client?

/jon

Frode Nordahl said the following on 2005-05-07 14:02:

> Hello,
>
> I just decided to try dovecot again after a long pause, and I must say 
> that I am very impressed with the speed and resource usage, even when 
> running with UNIX mailboxes.
>
> However, I have a problem with SSL. Every two minutes the connection 
> is frozen, and the client has to reconnect after it times out waiting 
> for a response from the server.
>
> My IMAP client fetches all headers, and then caches all messages in my 
> mailboxes. However, if I do this while connected to dovecot using SSL 
> (imaps, port 993) the connection times out roughly every two minutes, 
> and the IMAP client must close the connection, reconnect and resume 
> operations from where it left off. This makes resynching a 40000 
> message 300MB folder take VERY long :-)
>
> Using the same client, connected to the same server and syncing the 
> same mailbox connecting to regular imap port (no TLS, port 143), 
> everything works smoothly.
>
> The very same client, server and mailbox works flawlessly with 
> uw-imapd and SSL.
>
> I have turned on rawlog, and everything seems to be OK. I am unable to 
> dump the wire, because it's SSL, so not sure what to do to debug this.
>
> One thing I find a bit strange is that 
> /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat is a 0 byte file. Is this normal?
>
> Client: Apple Mail 1.3.11 (v622)
> Server: dovecot 0.99.14, installed from ports on FreeBSD 5
> dovecot.conf: