[Dovecot] [Fwd: Imap Timeouts]

[Rob Frohne]

Hi Timo,

I have been having the same problems.  From my experience, the problems 
seem to originate when I try to run Thunderbird on on one machine when 
it is already running on another machine.  If I always close Thunderbird 
and only allow myself one open at any time, it doesn't seem to happen.  
When it does happen, the only way I can find to get it to work again is 
to quit all instances of Thunderbird, and, on the server, kill dovecot, 
and then go to my Maildir directory and rm dovecot*, then restart 
dovecot, then restart Thunderbird.  I don't think there are any network 
or router issues, because I get the timeouts even when I run on the 
server and use localhost as the server in Thunderbird.  The new beta5 
has the same issues.  It takes some time (about 12 hours of normal email 
use for me) to get into the situation where Thunderbird reports 
timeouts, and I have to go do the above procedure. 

Rob

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Well, I've fixed some problems related to IDLE command and possibly it
> could have caused other problems also. Could you try downloading latest
> nightly snapshot from http://dovecot.org/nightly/ and try with it? I
> guess I should release it soon as beta4..
>
> If it still happens, I can't think of anything else in Dovecot that
> could cause it. Have you checked that there are no routers/firewalls in
> the middle that limit the connections in some way?
>
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 11:32 +0200, Neilw wrote:
>   
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> So is there resolution to my query below?
>> Is this a bug in beta3?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Neil
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Imap Timeouts
>> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:56:21 +0200
>> From: Neil Wilson <neilw at dcdata.co.za>
>> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've got a client running 1.0.beta3 on SuSe 9.3
>>
>> Everything has been running perfectly since it was installed about 6
>> months ago, but lately they've had issues with email clients not being
>> able to connect to the IMAP server, until they close their
>> clients(Thunderbird & Outlook) and then re-open them.
>>
>> They have roughly 70 users on their network, so it sounds like it could
>> be too many active sessions at once, but I've tried changing a few
>> things in the config, and so far nothing has resolved this.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Neil Wilson
>> Powered by Linux, driven by passion!
>>
>>     
>
>   

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