Re: [courier-users] Re: Thunderbird - courier-IMAP interaction problems

James Graves writes (4/4/2005 7:27 AM):

> Bill Taroli wrote:
>
>> Chris Fletcher wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, James Graves wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, this seems to help me a lot too with other issues I've seen with
>>>> Thunderbird. Sometimes it seems to hang when trying to open another
>>>> subfolder.
>>>>
>>>> I just set the threads down to one, and it all seems to better so far.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You can also increase the number of threads you can connect to the IMAP
>>> system. Put something like: MAXDAEMONS=40 into your imap config file.
>>>
>>> This has gotta be better than changing the settings on EVERY client's
>>> firefox that uses the daemon!
>>>
>>
>> Agreed. It's also handy to have multiple command threads when you
>> want to do something like run a Search and do other email things
>> while that's running, for example.
>
>
> What's curious is that I had already set MAXDAEMONS=40 in the IMAP
> configuration file for Courier. And I was still experiencing problems.
>
> Thunderbird recently seemed to forget that I set the threads down to 1
> (it was reset to the default 5) and I started seeing problems again.
> Which went away which I changed it back to 1.
>
> So there's something going on. I suspect Thunderbird at this point.
> However, I should do some packet captures to see what's really happening.

I don't remember the beginning of this thread, but this sounds like the
standard MAXPERIP problem. Courier defaults to 4, while Thunderbird
defaults to 5. You need to have the Thunderbird setting <= the Courier
setting. Grep for MAXPERIP in /etc/courier and you can see what's going on.

Chuck

>
> James Graves
>
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