Am Do, den 05.08.2004 schrieb Javier Perez um 20:46:
> > I had problems with timeouts in IMAP. Everything was
working fine with Outlook 2000, Courier-Imap and FC2 running the Courier-Imap.
> >
> > Suddenly, now I get frequent timeouts.
>
> And what did you change when first time the timeouts occur? You must
> have changed either on server side or client side.
>
Server side I do not remember changing anything. I checked my changelog
and there are no program installations or conf file changes.
Client Side, I applied the latest windows security updates with the
Cumulative Security Update for IE Service Pack 1 (KB867801)
Such security updates were often cause for trouble by side effects in
the past. Even updates were taken back because of causing problems.
Maybe it is an anti-virus tool on the client or a "personal firewall";
the usual suspects.
> > No matter what client I use (outlook, outlook xpress,
thunderbird, mozilla) I get timeouts after downloading around 20 headers. When Outlook
express tells me about it, I tell it to stop and then the client download some more
messages.
>
> And from a different client host?
Try it from a different client host. I bet it will confirm that it is
your Windows[tm] host after the update causing the timeouts.
> > I thought It had to do with the mailserver and I switch
courier for dovecot, but I get the same result
> >
> > I think maybe it is something with the wrappper service or something like
that.
>
> Which wrapper service?
>
I remember that Courier had a daemon called couriertcp which called the
imap program each time someone logged on port 143. I just learning
dovecot and I am not sure if there is some sort of play like this for
the dovecot imap to work. I am still learning how it works. But at
least, I know that inside the server it is working fine because
Evolution does not have any problem. The problem is in the
communication between an external client and the server.
I already changed the client and the server, therefore whatever problem
is left should be on the link connecting them both.
Ok, I understand. Dovecot runs as it's own daemon, without a wrapper in
front or (x)inetd controlled.
Alexander
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