I meant that Netscape DOES follow the rule, and as such doesn't suffer from the
problem.
Yes, upping the connection limit fixes the problem, (until a user has enough folders
to exceed the limit).
Also, I think Outlook x.x opens a new connection for each IMAP account it has set up,
but uses that same connection for each folder, so it was only hanging
because I have 8 IMAP accounts being checked at once.
As a side note, does anyone know how other IMAP mail servers handle this? As I don't
have the same problem connecting Mozilla to any other IMAP accounts.
I'm guessing they just don't have a connection limit.
Regards,
MAL
Derek Broughton wrote:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
>> MAL writes:
>>
>>> From what I have read, I get the picture that the mail client doesn't
>>> close the imap connection, when it should, and courier has a limit of
>>> connections. Netscape must adhere to the closing-connection rule.
>>> Is this true?
>>
>>
>> Correct.
>>
>>> And how can I go about fixing it?
>>
>>
>> Get Netscape to fix their broken code. Alternatively, the connection
>> limits may be increased in the imapd configuration file.
>
>
>
> Very interesting. I'd been experiencing a very annoying problem that I
> thought was strictly Mozilla related, after reading these posts I bumped
> it MAXPERIP up, and it appears that Mozilla (0.9.7) is opening up to 5
> connections to imapd - and since the default is 4, it gets hung up.
> Obviously the problem _is_ with Mozilla/Netscape - it should be able to
> cope with NOT getting a connection - but at least it's not a runaway
> problem.
>
> The correct fix would seem to be to change:
>
> user_pref("mail.server.server1.max_cached_connections", 5);
>
>
> in your Netscape/Mozilla "prefs.js" (could be something other than
> 'server1', too).
>
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