[Dovecot] Inactivity, Thunderbird -> bad password

[Peter Veerman]

>>>> 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..
>   
After restarting both Dovecot and Thunderbird the error already has not
occurred anymore for 3 hours already, while the error popped up every 25
minutes or so... I think it is safe to say though that the patch solved
the problem.

Timo: Thanx!