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 -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2smp Serendipity 21:48:57 up 1 day, 15:16, load average: 0.35, 0.23, 0.23
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