[Dovecot] [Fwd: Imap Timeouts]

[Dean Blackburn]

We can confirm this is an issue on beta3, and we had hoped beta5 would
solve it. :/

I'm not certain this is Thunderbird-specific though, as we have users with
one Tbird and a Treo checking simultaneously running into this issue as
well...


On Thu, April 6, 2006 3:29 pm, Rob Frohne wrote:
> 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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