Hi Clinton, Webmail is working fine again for me. I use webmail a lot rather than an IMAP client when I'm on a machine where it's not practical to install a client and download everything. Many of the times webmail has been apparently inaccessible, a local IMAP client works fine. Many other times I don't have it available to test, and less frequently IMAP has in fact gone down, which confuses matters further.
I'm sure having a cluttery inbox is exacerbating the problem, but it can't be purely a matter of the number of emails, because 1) the inaccessibility comes and goes, and 2) I've used webmail with close to the AFS limit in my Inbox before successfully (if sluggishly) in the past, and I seem to have even more problems recently with much fewer emails in my box. rcube has generally been more robust than Squirrelmail, but as often as not both barf upon logging in at the same time. So while it's a mystery to me there must be some other variable, perhaps one of which is system load. Ideally I should think that webmail ought to be robust with a couple thousand emails in a folder. That being said, big email, and especially scalable POP3/IMAP, is not easy to administer, and free webmail solutions are not terribly good. >From a practical user standpoint, I suppose I should stay away from webmail and use a local client or perhaps a text client on HCoop. Or forward all my email and stop using HCoop for serving mail, which is sort of a shame, but I don't have any real solutions to offer on the administrative side, and I continue using @hcoop.net to serve entirely too-important emails for largely sentimental reasons when we don't really have the resources to ensure robustness. It's shocking that we've done as well as we have, really--most of the time HCoop works really well, large webmail aside. Nathan > Greetings, > > ntk has reported (unfortunately on IRC where I get zero notification of > the problem) that IMAP has ceased working for him regularly. > > I've noticed *no* problems -- so is this a problem for anyone else? I > have about a decade of email at hcoop, and use it very heavily... and > it's always been rock solid for *me*, but not others for whatever > reason. > > One thing to note: if your INBOX gets too large, you will either hit the > afs filenames-in-directory limit (= bounces), or squirrelmail will start > timing out due to php time execution limits. But neither should affect > being able to *read* email. > > -- > <Sonarman> WHAT??!??! you don't want to attend my roundtable on > neomarxist deconstruction schemes for modern > capitalism? YOU'RE PROPPING UP THE SYSTEM, PIG. > <Sonarman> brb latte > _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
