Re: [Dovecot] outlook2007 shows frequent imap disconnect no matter what outlook-idle setting in dovecot.conf
Hi Sam, Samuel HAMEAU schrieb: Scott Silva a écrit : on 3-26-2008 1:33 AM Kielbasiewicz, Peter spake the following: Hello, I saw the problem quite often in various posts but could not find a real solution . Problem is that I frequently get annoying popups from outlook 2007 about imap idle timeouts which block working with outlook until the popup is acknowledged. The popup says: Your IMAP server closed the connection. This can occur if you leave the connection idle for too long. Protocol: IMAP Server: testhost Port: 143 Error Code: 0x800CCCDD I tried to run dovecot with or without "imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle" but do not see any difference. I am running dovecot on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.1 (Tikanga). Below is the output of some commands to get a clue about my config. Background info: Our primary mailboxes are on exchange servers. As there is a size limit on the server mailboxes I am evaluating a local storage solution for our users. Thus I set up an additional mailbox in outlook using IMAP. Local .pst files can not be backuped easily (especially when outlook is running) and I am investigating a local IMAP server where users can move their mails to. This server can easily be backuped (even incrementally when using Maildir) and users do always have access to their mails. The drawbacks are that users must have an extra login to the imap server because I have no ldap access to the company AD server from our local site domain. The solution will not be accepted though if I can not prevent the frequent disconnect popups. Peter #dovecot --version 1.0.rc15 First try upgrading to a more current version. 1.0.rc15 has got to be a year old by now. You can get a newer rpm at atrpms.net. I do have the same problem with dovecot 1.0.10 : disconnection popups with Outlook 2003/2007 with this kind of line in the logs: dovecot: 2008-03-26 15:16:01 Info: IMAP(user): Connection closed: Connection reset by peer sam in my experience it´s a general Outlook problem, no matter which version. I´ve seen this with uw and courier imap. I think it is related to the way how MS handles idle timeouts... Greetings, Mike
Re: [Dovecot] outlook2007 shows frequent imap disconnect no matter what outlook-idle setting in dovecot.conf
Scott Silva a écrit : on 3-26-2008 1:33 AM Kielbasiewicz, Peter spake the following: Hello, I saw the problem quite often in various posts but could not find a real solution . Problem is that I frequently get annoying popups from outlook 2007 about imap idle timeouts which block working with outlook until the popup is acknowledged. The popup says: Your IMAP server closed the connection. This can occur if you leave the connection idle for too long. Protocol: IMAP Server: testhost Port: 143 Error Code: 0x800CCCDD I tried to run dovecot with or without "imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle" but do not see any difference. I am running dovecot on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.1 (Tikanga). Below is the output of some commands to get a clue about my config. Background info: Our primary mailboxes are on exchange servers. As there is a size limit on the server mailboxes I am evaluating a local storage solution for our users. Thus I set up an additional mailbox in outlook using IMAP. Local .pst files can not be backuped easily (especially when outlook is running) and I am investigating a local IMAP server where users can move their mails to. This server can easily be backuped (even incrementally when using Maildir) and users do always have access to their mails. The drawbacks are that users must have an extra login to the imap server because I have no ldap access to the company AD server from our local site domain. The solution will not be accepted though if I can not prevent the frequent disconnect popups. Peter #dovecot --version 1.0.rc15 First try upgrading to a more current version. 1.0.rc15 has got to be a year old by now. You can get a newer rpm at atrpms.net. I do have the same problem with dovecot 1.0.10 : disconnection popups with Outlook 2003/2007 with this kind of line in the logs: dovecot: 2008-03-26 15:16:01 Info: IMAP(user): Connection closed: Connection reset by peer sam
Re: [Dovecot] outlook2007 shows frequent imap disconnect no matter what outlook-idle setting in dovecot.conf
on 3-26-2008 1:33 AM Kielbasiewicz, Peter spake the following: Hello, I saw the problem quite often in various posts but could not find a real solution . Problem is that I frequently get annoying popups from outlook 2007 about imap idle timeouts which block working with outlook until the popup is acknowledged. The popup says: Your IMAP server closed the connection. This can occur if you leave the connection idle for too long. Protocol: IMAP Server: testhost Port: 143 Error Code: 0x800CCCDD I tried to run dovecot with or without "imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle" but do not see any difference. I am running dovecot on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.1 (Tikanga). Below is the output of some commands to get a clue about my config. Background info: Our primary mailboxes are on exchange servers. As there is a size limit on the server mailboxes I am evaluating a local storage solution for our users. Thus I set up an additional mailbox in outlook using IMAP. Local .pst files can not be backuped easily (especially when outlook is running) and I am investigating a local IMAP server where users can move their mails to. This server can easily be backuped (even incrementally when using Maildir) and users do always have access to their mails. The drawbacks are that users must have an extra login to the imap server because I have no ldap access to the company AD server from our local site domain. The solution will not be accepted though if I can not prevent the frequent disconnect popups. Peter #dovecot --version 1.0.rc15 First try upgrading to a more current version. 1.0.rc15 has got to be a year old by now. You can get a newer rpm at atrpms.net. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[Dovecot] outlook2007 shows frequent imap disconnect no matter what outlook-idle setting in dovecot.conf
Hello, I saw the problem quite often in various posts but could not find a real solution . Problem is that I frequently get annoying popups from outlook 2007 about imap idle timeouts which block working with outlook until the popup is acknowledged. The popup says: Your IMAP server closed the connection. This can occur if you leave the connection idle for too long. Protocol: IMAP Server: testhost Port: 143 Error Code: 0x800CCCDD I tried to run dovecot with or without "imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle" but do not see any difference. I am running dovecot on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.1 (Tikanga). Below is the output of some commands to get a clue about my config. Background info: Our primary mailboxes are on exchange servers. As there is a size limit on the server mailboxes I am evaluating a local storage solution for our users. Thus I set up an additional mailbox in outlook using IMAP. Local .pst files can not be backuped easily (especially when outlook is running) and I am investigating a local IMAP server where users can move their mails to. This server can easily be backuped (even incrementally when using Maildir) and users do always have access to their mails. The drawbacks are that users must have an extra login to the imap server because I have no ldap access to the company AD server from our local site domain. The solution will not be accepted though if I can not prevent the frequent disconnect popups. Peter #dovecot --version 1.0.rc15 #dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap imaps login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd # tail /var/log/messages Mar 26 06:45:28 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=:::130.143.81.176, lip=:::130.143.83.92 Mar 26 06:46:01 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected: Logged out Mar 26 06:46:01 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected Mar 26 07:15:31 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=:::130.143.81.176, lip=:::130.143.83.92 Mar 26 07:15:31 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=:::130.143.81.176, lip=:::130.143.83.92 Mar 26 07:16:04 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected Mar 26 07:16:04 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected Mar 26 07:40:13 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=:::130.143.81.176, lip=:::130.143.83.92 Mar 26 07:40:13 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=:::130.143.81.176, lip=:::130.143.83.92 Mar 26 07:40:39 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected
