On Sun December 5 2004 11:20 am, Jeff Jansen wrote:
> This is on Suse 9.1 and 9.2. I originally enabled fam and
> IMAP_ENHANCEDIDLE (under RH 7.3) because it seemed to solve a bunch of
> problems with Outlook. Outlook users often got those very helpful MS
> messages like "An unknown error occurred and it's DEFINITELY not our
> fault. If only you were running MS Exchange this would never happen..."
> ;-)
Sounds like a common Outlook config problem. In the Account setup of
Outlook, check 2 things:
1. On the General tab, uncheck the box "Include this account when receiving
mail or synchronizing."
2.On the IMAP tab, uncheck the box "Check for new messages in all folders".
> Anyway, enabling FAM and the IMAP_ENHANCEDIDLE stopped all those error
> messages. So I've been using them ever since. But maybe it's time to
> turn them both off and see what happens.
>
> > From what I recall, it should monitor only what the FAM client (imapd)
> > requests, ie. the maildir Inbox. If it's going elsewhere, something
> > else may be borked.
>
> I'm not exactly sure what "monitor" means in this case. The Gamin site
> you mentioned has the following change log from a couple of months ago.
>
> # statically excludes /mnt//* /media//* from kernel monitoring to avoid
> umount problems
>
> That may be the gamin solution to the same problem I'm seeing.
Only if you're running a desktop (Gnome, KDE, etc.) on the Courier server.
Again, I'm no expert, but it's my impression that the fam/gamin daemon
starts out at first doing absolutely nothing. Only when a client
application, such as imapd, connects to it does it start monitoring for
changes. With each user's IMAP connection, imapd calls to famd, "Hey, famd,
I'm interested in /home/user-name/Maildir. Keep an eye out and report back
any changes." And so on, for the Inbox of each user. ("man imapd" more of
the Courier pieces involved.)
Directories that are not maildirs (/mnt, /media, etc.) would be monitored by
something else - an "automounter" for the desktop GUI for example.
jerry
-------------------------------------------------------
SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide
Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users.
Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now.
http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/
_______________________________________________
courier-users mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
