On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 19:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ross Davis - DataAnywhere.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On my pc (using outlook 2002) I have added one pop3 account to pull > >> the mail from my inbox off onto my machine and another Imap account > >> that I can use to monitor my spam folder. This is really nice > >> concept wise except I am getting an error about 20% of the time when > >> I check my email. If I remove the Imap account I do not get the > >> error. Outlook checks both accounts at the same time and there is > >> no way to stop that. I tried everything. > >> > >> I think the problem is that imap and pop3 are conflicting with each > >> other when checking the same account at the same time. Anyone else > >> tried this or know of a solution?
first of all, why use the imap AND pop3 account? You can view your inbox with your imap account just fine. I use imap, and only imap anymore, as I like to be able to get the same emails from anywhere :) > Incorrect. The problem is courier-imap only allows a small amount of imap > connections per IP, and outlook and outlook express both open several > connections at a time, and the IMAP server is killing the extra connections. Unfortunately that is true. Also unfortunately, Mozilla Thunderbird (at least for linux) also does that. It sets up a new connection for each folder, which, in my case, is very bad, as I have lots of imap folders (at least 2 for every mailing list I'm on, as well as lots of 'personal' folders) I don't use windows anymore, and I never really used Outlook with my imap server, I've been using evolution under linux for the past 2 years, which is absolutely wonderful. I would suggest perhaps trying some other mail clients. I know eudora (at least later versions) is very nice, but it's not freeware, so unless you register it you have a few very small (and unobtrusive) ads in your main client window (it is NOT spyware, and will NOT pop up ads on you) Also, I'm sure freshmeat would have a nice listing of free email clients for windows, certainly one of them will perform well enough for you. I certainly wish I could recommend one for you other than Eudora, but I do not use windows anymore, nor do I feel like installing windows just for that ;) Maybe some day... I am planning on opening a site very soon that will review a lot of things, I'm semi keeping it secret because I don't own the domain yet and don't want someone to steal it before I can get it :\ I will put "Windows MUAs" on my checklist of things to review, hopefully it will be helpful to someone. > Find your 'imapd' file, (default /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc), and find the > "MAXPERIP" variable. Raise it. That will certainly help, but in my case I would also be limited by the max connections configuration directive, because I have far more than 40 (which is the default) imap folders. I think this is more an MUA problem than a server side problem. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc.
