Encountered something strange today. Several clients who use mail clients on the same machine reported that they could no longer connect to the mail server. Myself, and other clients not on that particular machine did not have a problem. When I tried a simple 'telnet mailserver 143' from the machine in question I got an immediate server closed connection. This all started right after one user made an error in a filter definition and started an endless loop of connections to the mail server. So since all other clients did not have a problem reaching the mail server except for one, I wondered if the IMAP daemon has some kind of automatic protection builtin. If so, where is this kept? There were no entries in the iptables or /etc/hosts.deny|allow files.
The only way that I could resolve the problem was by restarting the IMAP daemon. Has anyone else encountered this before? Does anyone know definitively what it is? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
