On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 14:52, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > 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 > Hi I can confirm it now. KB867801 broke my system. I inserted Knoppix on the same machine and Kmail worked perfectly as a client with the IMAP server. Therefore, something in KB867801 is causing the timeouts.
