Le 21/11/2012 04:44, David Guntner a écrit :
Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running,
but for some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right.
I'll select an unread message, and the header will change in the
display, but the body doesn't appear - the status bar
mouss grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Le 21/11/2012 04:44, David Guntner a écrit :
It never did this with the IMAP server that I was using on my old
system
My mail reader in my smart phone works just fine with it, BTW. :-)
I googled a bit and found a note about setting a Thunderbird
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
For further analysis, you can follow Dovecot's instructions. They even
have a separate page for TB:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Thunderbird
You can also try to upgrade to the backport[1] of Dovecot 2.1. Beware
that this upgrade involves
David Guntner:
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/speedup_thunderbird_imap
Well, unless I'm looking at the wrong setting, I've got it configured
for 1. Maximum number of connections to cache in Advanced settings
for the server is currently set
David Guntner:
Watching the syslog, I can see what's happening when I move to another
message is that a *new* login connection is being established (without
closing the old one) with the IMAP server. After I've moved around
enough times, the server logs a note saying that I've exceeded the
One other thing to add here - Upon initial connection, TB has no
problems getting the list of messages. That pops up right away. It's
only when selecting an unread message that it hangs as described below.
It flags the message as read but never gets off downloading
message until I click
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
David Guntner:
Watching the syslog, I can see what's happening when I move to another
message is that a *new* login connection is being established (without
closing the old one) with the IMAP server. After I've moved around
enough times, the
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:44:29PM -0800, David Guntner wrote:
Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for
some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. I'll select an
unread message, and the header will change in the display, but the body
doesn't
David Guntner:
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Dovecot limits both the total number of parallel connections and the
number of connections per user (or per client IP address, don't
remember). Either increase that or reduce the number of connections
Thunderbird uses.
I think
John L. Cunningham grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:44:29PM -0800, David Guntner wrote:
Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for
some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. I'll select an
unread message, and the header will
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
David Guntner:
Thunderbird isn't
supposed to be opening a new connection with each message it tries to
read; it should just read them with the one connection it has.
Well, it usually uses more than one connection. I'd still try reducing
the
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Ok, so your assumption is that some connections to Dovecot hang for an
unknown reason and that's why Thunderbird creates new ones? In order to
debug that, I would increase logfile verbosity für Dovecot (probably
including authentication logging) and
Following up to myself here, since I just discovered something which
might be a clue
As previously noted, my smart phone's mail program has absolutely no
problems accessing the IMAP sever (Dovecot). I can read new mail, old
mail, whatever - no hanging, no extra login connections showing up
Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for
some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. I'll select an
unread message, and the header will change in the display, but the body
doesn't appear - the status bar just says Downloading message... and
it sits
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