Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders
On 2010-09-02 3:43 PM, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote: It appears that the default configuration for MAXPERIP (maximum number of connections to accept from the same IP address) was set to 4. (I assume it's the default, since I never changed it myself.) Changing the value to 10 eliminated the Thunderbird problem entirely. I don't know if some other value between 4 and 10 would work as well. I'm happy with it as it is now. I ran into this a long time ago when I first set up our courier server... TB's default form 'Maximum number of server connections to cache is 5: Tools Account Settings Server Settings Advanced So, setting it to 5 would have been enough...
Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders
On 9/2/2010 12:43 PM, Jim Cunning wrote: On 09/01/2010 10:44 AM, Andrea Conti wrote: Hi, I routinely use thunderbird to access mail on a cyrus IMAP server with very large folders (thousands of archived messages). IMAP support in the 3.1 series seems quite stable to me (whereas 2.x had frequent problems with folder indexes and 3.0.x tended to hang randomly while performing server operations) The only problem I can think of is that if you have used the default settings for the message search feature, thunderbird will attempt to build a full-text search index by downloading every message on the server (body included) when it is first run. Thunderbird will try downloading messages from multiple folders in parallel, which might cause a hign load on the server resulting in substantial delays when listing folder contents. If thunderbird is indexing messages (look at the progress indicator on the status bar), try leaving it alone until it is done -- it's a one-time process. If, on the other hand, everything is idle, I'm sorry but I have no idea. HTH, andrea The problem turned out not to be with Thunderbird at all, but with the courier-imap configuration. I found in /var/log/messages some instances of this: imapd-ssl: Maximum connection limit reached for :::10.0.0.1 It appears that the default configuration for MAXPERIP (maximum number of connections to accept from the same IP address) was set to 4. (I assume it's the default, since I never changed it myself.) Changing the value to 10 eliminated the Thunderbird problem entirely. I don't know if some other value between 4 and 10 would work as well. I'm happy with it as it is now. I'd recommend 10 connections per concurrent account that connects to the server from the same IP. If you're running multiple accounts, like kashani-list@ and kashani@ in my case, you'll want at least 20. Same thing applies if you're running webmail for multiple account because all account access will originate from localhost. kashani
[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders
On 09/01/2010 10:44 AM, Andrea Conti wrote: Hi, I routinely use thunderbird to access mail on a cyrus IMAP server with very large folders (thousands of archived messages). IMAP support in the 3.1 series seems quite stable to me (whereas 2.x had frequent problems with folder indexes and 3.0.x tended to hang randomly while performing server operations) The only problem I can think of is that if you have used the default settings for the message search feature, thunderbird will attempt to build a full-text search index by downloading every message on the server (body included) when it is first run. Thunderbird will try downloading messages from multiple folders in parallel, which might cause a hign load on the server resulting in substantial delays when listing folder contents. If thunderbird is indexing messages (look at the progress indicator on the status bar), try leaving it alone until it is done -- it's a one-time process. If, on the other hand, everything is idle, I'm sorry but I have no idea. HTH, andrea The problem turned out not to be with Thunderbird at all, but with the courier-imap configuration. I found in /var/log/messages some instances of this: imapd-ssl: Maximum connection limit reached for :::10.0.0.1 It appears that the default configuration for MAXPERIP (maximum number of connections to accept from the same IP address) was set to 4. (I assume it's the default, since I never changed it myself.) Changing the value to 10 eliminated the Thunderbird problem entirely. I don't know if some other value between 4 and 10 would work as well. I'm happy with it as it is now. -- Jim
Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders
Am 02.09.2010 21:43, schrieb Jim Cunning: It appears that the default configuration for MAXPERIP (maximum number of connections to accept from the same IP address) was set to 4. (I assume it's the default, since I never changed it myself.) Changing the value to 10 eliminated the Thunderbird problem entirely. I don't know if some other value between 4 and 10 would work as well. I'm happy with it as it is now. Just to understand correctly: this is a courier-parameter, not a thunderbird-parameter, right?
Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders
Am 02.09.2010 23:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 02.09.2010 21:43, schrieb Jim Cunning: It appears that the default configuration for MAXPERIP (maximum number of connections to accept from the same IP address) was set to 4. (I assume it's the default, since I never changed it myself.) Changing the value to 10 eliminated the Thunderbird problem entirely. I don't know if some other value between 4 and 10 would work as well. I'm happy with it as it is now. Just to understand correctly: this is a courier-parameter, not a thunderbird-parameter, right? sorry for the noise, you mentioned it