Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird Problem - What causes this?

[Scott Silva]

on 1/27/2008 2:40 PM Marc Perkel spake the following:

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Sunday 27 January 2008 20:49:42 Anne Wilson wrote:

On Sunday 27 January 2008 15:41:04 Marc Perkel wrote:

Strange problem and I'm not sure what's causing it. I'm using IMAP. A
new message arives in the inbox. I see it displayed in the message list

previous message that was in the window remains and the new message is

click on the new message again and it reads.

in bold. I click on the message and it looks like it's reading it by the still bold (unread). However I can then click on an old message and then

I have reported the same behaviour in KMail over Dovecot - and someone else

also reported it.  That seems to suggest that it's a Dovecot problem.

I should have said that I reported it on the kde-pim list, as I thought it was a Konntact problem. I classed it as a minor annoyance, and didn't follow it up when no-one seemed to know why it was happening.

Anne

OK - I didn't know that I might be reporting something new. Here's some more details. I leave my computer on at might (Windows XP) and it's worse in the morning when I wake up. Thunderbird's checks the email every 1 minute and it's set up to check several IMAP folders. I'm running the latest Thunderbird release as will as the latest Dovecot (not the beta versions).

Hammering the server every minute can be hard on the server. Especially if all the users do the same. I personally make users check no more than every 10 minutes automatically.

In the morning it is as if it can't access dovecot at all. I get an hour glass as if it is waiting for something that's never going to respond. But if I shut down Thunderbird and restart it then everything works normal for a while.

I use Xp and also leave it on all the time. Sometimes Thunderbird will seem to run out of memor, and a restart is the only thing that will help. But in my case it isn't dovecot because I can still read my mail from other clients and other machines.

My server is doing a lot of work but the load levels are low. Running Fedora 8, dual core AMD 6000+ processor with 8 gigs of ram. My experimenting with adding more authentication processes seems to help but I could be fooling myself. That's why I'm experimenting to try to figure out what's making it slow.

Trimming the accesses down from every minute should help this also.

Hope this extra info helps.

Like someone else said, I saw something like this happen with several RCs but at the time I thought it was MBOX related. I'm not using Maildir.

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