[Dovecot] Multiple Concurrent IMAP Connections For Same User

Nigel Webber nigel at veletron.com
Wed Jan 26 13:29:40 EET 2011


I should have mentioned that this is not iPhone specific, the same 
behaviour may be observed for 2 simultanious connections from 2 separate 
machines running Thunderbird.

TLS/SSL is used on both.

dovecot config file below:

Nigel

# 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-028stab069.5 x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imaps
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
mailbox_idle_check_interval: 5
mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
auth default:
   mechanisms: plain login
   passdb:
     driver: pam
   userdb:
     driver: passwd
   socket:
     type: listen
     client:
       path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client
       mode: 432
       user: postfix
       group: postfix


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