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

[Frode Nordahl]

On May 7, 2005, at 18:16, Jon wrote:

> Have you tried another client?

No, but that is somewhat besides the point. I want it to work with this 
client.

Mvh,
Frode

> /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: