On Wed, 3 May 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Well, let me restate. They were being marked "Unread", which, for all
> intents and purposes, is also "New", thought the date stamp on the e-mail
> did not change.
Okay then. Just checking. :)
> No, the users in question are logging in only from their desktops, which are
> *mostly* Windows systems ...
Reinstall Windows.
(No, I don't think that is related to the problem, but it usually needs to
be done anyway. ;-)
>> Lastly, I've seen cases where the IMAP server will apparently not notice
>> the user connection has terminated.
>
> This is entirely possible, though I've killed off all imapd processes and
> restarted the clients with no effect.
Hmmm, that's not so good. In all the cases I've seen, killing off all the
imap servers cleared up the (immediate) locking problems. You may be seeing
something different then what we've had.
Have you checked the permissions on the users' mail directories and files?
Have you tried logging in directly, as the user, and trying local access, to
see what happens? Maybe running an IMAP client locally (Pine works well) to
eliminate network issues?
You might want to try telnetting... telneting... um, doing a telnet to port
110 and conversing with the IMAP server "by hand" to see what it thinks is
going on.
> Yeah, RH is shipping imap rev. 4.5, (circa 1998) and the current stable is
> 4.7c (released 4/28/00 :)
*sigh* Red Hat will happily ship an incredibly buggy, pre-production DHCP
client, but their IMAP server is two years old. Sheesh. To adapt a phrase
you (or maybe Derek) used not so long ago, Red Hat is absolutely the worst
distribution out there -- except for all the others. ;)
FWIW, RHL 6.2 includes UW IMAP 4.7, dated 27-OCT-1999. Still old, but at
least within a year.
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