[Dovecot] Inactivity, Thunderbird -> bad password

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Nov 19 11:41:03 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 12:29 +0100, Peter Veerman wrote:
> >> I'm running dovecot rc13 now on sparc64, freebsd 6.1-STABLE
> >>
> >> When i'm connected with my 5 accounts to my dovecot imap over ssl/tls
> >> server i get the following message in my logs:
> >> Nov 18 15:25:47 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=x.x.x.x,
> >> lip=x.x.x.x, TLS
> >> My client (thunderbird) then re-requests my password for only one of the
> >> 5 accounts.
> >>     
> >
> > Try if this patch helps:
> >
> > http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-November/006895.html
> >
> > Can't really think of anything else. It means that from Dovecot's point
> > of view the client didn't send authentication command at all.
> It didn't help :( the only difference because of the patch is that i
> don't get the inactivity error anymor in the logs,
>  instead of that I _only_ get the following message:
> 
> Nov 19 12:18:10 Info: IMAP(user at domain): Disconnected

This means that the login succeeded, and the client just disconnected.

> For the sake of clarity; this and the previous error happens after being
> logged in for quite a while (about 25 minutes) on randomly one of my
> five imap mailboxes.

Might as well be Thunderbird doing something broken..
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