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
Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders
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
[gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders
I decided to give thunderbird (and its integrated calendar, lightning) a try after having some troubles with kontact corrupting and deleting events on a webdav calendar. I initially tried thunderbird 3.0.4 (which I think didn't actually have the calendar integrated--not really significant), and had trouble getting TB to display the contents of my email folders on an IMAP server. Most folders showed up empty. I have about 180 folders with about 14,000 messages total--the correct folders were shown, just nothing shown in them. After a bit of googling, I found a reference to a bug resembling my problem that supposedly was fixed in 3.1.2. I tried that version without change to the problem, and today 3.1.2-r1 with the same result. My IMAP server is net-mail/courier-imap 4.5.0 on the same host as my workstation. I have no trouble reading folders and their contents with kontact 4.4.5/kmail 1.13.5 I've tried more googling and searching at the mozilla.org site for clues. Anyone have any experience with this problem--and perhaps a solution? TIA, -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP
Ralph Slooten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Hi everyone, I recently migrated from Evolution to Mozilla Thunderbird and I must say that I has been a really good move ;-). However, I have a couple of problems to fix before finishing the migration; firstly, I can browse the main folder in an IMAP server, but I can't browse subfolders, Right-click on the account and select Subscribe. I'm not sure about evolution, but thunderbird allows you to subscribe to folders like they were newsgroups. I'm not sure which imap software you are using, so I just presume courier-imap ;-) although I could with Evolution (and still can). On the other hand, I've got loads of contacts in Evolution that I'd like to transfer to Thunderbird without copying all them by hand. In the addressbook go to tools - import. There are several formats to import from. Again, I'm not sure of evolution, but I do presume it can export entries in certain standard formats (ldif, tab delimited, comma separated). Export them from evolution in one of those formats, and import them into thunderbird. OK, the IMAP problem is totally solved, I didn't know Thunderbird needed you to specify which folders you'd like it to read... I haven't solved the address book problem yet because Evolution doesn't seem to have a way to export all the contacts, so I'll try recompiling both Evolution and Thunderbird with ldap enabled... Thanks a lot, Abraham -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP
Hi everyone, I recently migrated from Evolution to Mozilla Thunderbird and I must say that I has been a really good move ;-). However, I have a couple of problems to fix before finishing the migration; firstly, I can browse the main folder in an IMAP server, but I can't browse subfolders, although I could with Evolution (and still can). On the other hand, I've got loads of contacts in Evolution that I'd like to transfer to Thunderbird without copying all them by hand. Any help with either of these two problems? Thanks, Abraham -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Hi everyone, I recently migrated from Evolution to Mozilla Thunderbird and I must say that I has been a really good move ;-). However, I have a couple of problems to fix before finishing the migration; firstly, I can browse the main folder in an IMAP server, but I can't browse subfolders, Right-click on the account and select Subscribe. I'm not sure about evolution, but thunderbird allows you to subscribe to folders like they were newsgroups. I'm not sure which imap software you are using, so I just presume courier-imap ;-) although I could with Evolution (and still can). On the other hand, I've got loads of contacts in Evolution that I'd like to transfer to Thunderbird without copying all them by hand. In the addressbook go to tools - import. There are several formats to import from. Again, I'm not sure of evolution, but I do presume it can export entries in certain standard formats (ldif, tab delimited, comma separated). Export them from evolution in one of those formats, and import them into thunderbird. Any help with either of these two problems? Well I hope this helps ;-) Greetings Ralph -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC6Q4mAWKxH5yWMT8RAqKeAJ4oGqIcwHpWuJ+YxUnspA8IuaExXgCdFaUB 8r0rRmvqx8fS9zZR6OG2MJI= =8NJj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
