Also, if you have more than one client connected to the same mailbox
you'll get that error too. For instance, if I leave my mail client
running at home, and check my mail at work, it'll complain to me about
that.

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 15:55 -0600, Alvaro Zuniga wrote:
> 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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