Re: [mailop] Outlook 2016: Excessive IMAP connections

2020-08-11 Thread Benoit Panizzon via mailop
Hi Tim No, ICMP is not being blocked. At least not on the IMAP server side. Yes, IPv6 in use, but the affected customer mostly don't use IPv6 and don't use mobile networks. But since we increased to 50 connections per user+ip the complaints are almost gone. As I understand, Outlook 2016 opens

Re: [mailop] Outlook 2016: Excessive IMAP connections

2020-08-10 Thread Tim Bray via mailop
On 07/08/2020 19:31, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: Anyways, the point of my story is that it may not be a change to Outlook at all, but a Windows networking change or maybe just more network flakiness among your customers or even your own network (less likely). I wonder if the original

Re: [mailop] Outlook 2016: Excessive IMAP connections

2020-08-07 Thread Brandon Long via mailop
>From my memory, Outlook would keep two connections open, one kind of "background / new mail" one, and one for the open folder. Our experience was that there were cases where flakey tcp paths could lead to long times for connections to die, though we were seeing it more with macbooks and apple

[mailop] Outlook 2016: Excessive IMAP connections

2020-08-07 Thread Benoit Panizzon via mailop
Hi Gang We use DoveCot as IMAP Server and have limited the number of connections per IMAP account to 20 which looks to have been sufficient in the past couple of years. Since about two weeks we get an increased number of users complaining about IMAP connections problem and name (0x8...) error