[Dovecot] IMAPS - timeout while moving mails

[Petar Bogdanovic]

Thank you for your feedback. However, I doubt, that I have the same 
problem: 1024MB ram, 1024MB swap.. :)

Bob Gustafson wrote:
> I have seen a problem which may be similar. I was doing filtering with a
> old small laptop running Evolution on FC4. The swap space was configured
> as the default during FC4 installation. Since laptop has small memory,
> swap space was small.
> 
> During a filtering run with quite a few emails, Evolution would run out
> of swap space and hang.
> 
> Bob G
> 
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 11:42 +0200, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using Dovecot v1.0.beta5 (NetBSD 3.0, i386) and Mozilla Thunderbird 
>> 1.5 (XP, i386). My dovecot.conf is pretty simple, because I just use 
>> dovecot for me as the only user.
>>
>> However, when I try to move a 'larger' amount of mails (>200) from my 
>> local TB-mbox to the remote IMAPS-storage, the process hangs after about 
>> 150 - 160 transferred mails (the 'blocking' mail is _never_ the same). I 
>> don't have the slightest clue why - there is nothing in the logs - even 
>> if I turn 'verbose_ssl' on. After a while, TB tells me, that the server 
>> timed out and dovecot says:
>>
>> "imap(petar): Disconnected"
>>
>> Usually - if I close my MUA correctly - dovecot says:
>>
>> "imap(petar): Disconnected: Logged out"
>>
>>
>> Is somebody maybe experiencing something similar?
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much & with kind regards,
>>
>> Petar Bogdanovic