Oh, I know it works, but for some reason it stopped working for this one account. I think the certificate expired, but it doesn't make sense why it works via squirrelmail. That's IMAP and I am using a secure connection.
# ps aux |grep imap /root 6003 0.0 0.0 4096 680 pts/2 S+ 20:26 0:00 grep imap vpopmail 15540 0.0 0.0 3136 848 ? S 16:30 0:00 /usr/bin/imapd Maildir root 21090 0.0 0.0 1616 240 ? S Jan06 0:00 supervise imap4-ssl root 21094 0.0 0.0 1616 240 ? S Jan06 0:00 supervise imap4 root 21110 0.0 0.0 1788 364 ? S Jan06 0:00 /usr/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l area510.net 0 993 /usr/bin/couriertls -server -tcpd /usr/sbin/imaplogin /usr/bin/imapd Maildir qmaill 21111 0.0 0.0 1764 356 ? S Jan06 0:00 /usr/bin/multilog t s1000000 n100 /var/log/qmail/imap4-ssl qmaill 21114 0.0 0.0 1632 232 ? S Jan06 0:00 /usr/bin/multilog t s1000000 n100 /var/log/qmail/imap4 root 21115 0.0 0.0 1788 368 ? S Jan06 0:00 /usr/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l area510.net 0 143 /usr/sbin/imaplogin /usr/bin/imapd Maildir / # netstat -tap | grep imap /tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 21110/tcpserver tcp 0 0 *:imap *:* LISTEN 21115/tcpserver tcp 0 0 anastasia.area510.net:imap 166-205-139-033.mobil:14375 ESTABLISHED 15540/imapd /CJ On 01/13/2011 08:17 PM, Jake Vickers wrote: > On 01/13/2011 09:32 PM, Cecil Yother, Jr. wrote: >> >> Sorry about the premature send. >> >> Well no luck sorting out the issue. It doesn't appear to be >> Thunderbird only. The Sea Monkey e mail client does the same thing. >> I know the IMAP is working correctly because I can login via Squirelmail. >> >> Here is the error message I'm getting. hopefully someone can shed some >> light. I have tried the Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird suggestions to >> reduce the number of connection to no avail. Any ideas? >> >> /Unable to connect to your IMAP server. You may have exceeded the >> maximum number of connections to this server. If so, use the Advanced >> IMAP Server Settings dialog to reduce the number of cached connections./ >> > > Do you still need a SSL how-to written for courier? > Look in your courier/imap logs to see if anything else is going on > there. Also try "ps aux | grep imap" and "netstat -tap | grep imap" to > see the current connections. Once we're sure the backend is okay, we > can look at the front end. > I use Thunderbird with QMT IMAP (SSL/TLS) without any issues. > -- Cecil Yother, Jr. "cj" cj's 2318 Clement Ave Alameda, CA 94501 tel 510.865.2787 | http://yother.com Check out the new Volvo classified resource http://www.volvoclassified.com