One of the connections is courier nonssl with about 30 folders, would that be 
considered concurrent?

Another other IMAP is Exchange I believe.

I will try that see what happens. Lately I have been using KMail while trying 
KDE once again. The first problem, you cannot create filters for IMAP 
folders; too bad.

On Monday 24 January 2005 01:34 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> Alvaro Zuniga wrote:
> > I have tried thunderbird before and my problem was that whith multiple
> > IMAP I keep getting the error "IMAP server busy" or something like that.
> > Could be a server thing but it is  a problem for me. I tried the gentoo
> > binary package.
>
> Were you using Courier-IMAP? I found that problem was solved by allowing
> more connections from a given IP. Courier limits this to four by default.
>
> One thing that is still killing me is that Thunderbird is just plain
> pokey with large IMAP folders. If I open my brlug-general folder for
> example, which only has several messages (I set my folders to hide read
> messages), Thunderbird usually takes 3-5 seconds to load the folder and
> apply the view. This is an instant process in OE. For larger folders the
> problem gets worse.
>
> Also, I've noticed that Thunderbird doesn't show new messages as quickly
> as OE, even if you lower the poll rate for scanning IMAP folders.
>
> Oh well. I can live with these things in general. If I'm in a crunch I
> just open OE to quickly see a new message when things get urgent.
> Otherwise I'm going to stick with Thunderbird at this point.
>
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