Hey Ryan. A couple things you can do.
Experiment with "check this account when sending / receiving" - this seemed to result in multiple connection streams... The other answer you already found... Outlook - depending on version - can have 2 - 4 sessions active per account... with exchange and other IMAP servers like uw, the new connection from the same IP terminates the original connection I think - but with courier, it can have multiple connection tied up at once for EACH account. Your auth daemons should be fine with 5 though - I have hundreds of active accounts on some of my servers and never had to increase the number of authdaemons. The problem gets worse when you NAT - I've got clients with 20 mail boxes using outlook, so my max per ip is around 100, which makes it real easy to DOS the IMAP service - defeating the purpose of the setting... but whatcha gonna do? 20 mail boxes, 4 connections, plus a few who have multiple mail boxes... adds up to 100 sessions peak at once pretty quick. hth m/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ryan Burton Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:57 PM To: Caleb Shay; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [courier-users] Outlook / Imap Issue Ok, I increased the number of connection from one IP from 4 to 10 in the imapd config file, and the number of daemons from 5 to 10 in the authdaemonrc config file. Everything seems to be working fine now. Seems to need more connections with the more folders I have expanded. I am checking 3 different e-mail accounts at once, so that would account for a need for more connections. But my question is, is this recommended procedure? Are there any other ways? Any repercussions because of this? Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Caleb Shay Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 11:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [courier-users] Outlook / Imap Issue I had this happening too, only it was from Mail.app on OSX. Turns out that it was trying to authenticate a bunch of times in rapid succession, turning up my daemons="#" to 40 (we have several mac users) in authdaemonrc fixed it. May not be your problem, but it can't hurt to try. Caleb Shay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan Burton wrote: > I have Outlook 2000 with sp3 setup to check an IMAP account. It works ok, > but after a few minutes it starts prompting me for a password, even though > it is correct. Sometimes it says cannot get header...etc. Any ideas why > it's doing this? Webmail seems to work ok. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
