Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-27 Thread David Guntner
mouss grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Le 21/11/2012 04:44, David Guntner a écrit : >> >> It never did this with the IMAP server that I was using on my old >> system >> >> My mail reader in my smart phone works just fine with it, BTW. :-) >> >> I googled a bit and found a note about setting a Th

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-27 Thread mouss
Le 21/11/2012 04:44, David Guntner a écrit : > Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, > but for some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. > I'll select an unread message, and the header will change in the > display, but the body doesn't appear - the status b

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-26 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > For further analysis, you can follow Dovecot's instructions. They even > have a separate page for TB: > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Thunderbird > > You can also try to upgrade to the backport[1] of Dovecot 2.1. Beware > that this upgrade i

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
David Guntner: > Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> >> https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/speedup_thunderbird_imap > > Well, unless I'm looking at the wrong setting, I've got it configured > for 1. "Maximum number of connections to cache" in Advanced settings > for the server is curr

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Following up to myself here, since I just discovered something which might be a clue As previously noted, my smart phone's mail program has absolutely no problems accessing the IMAP sever (Dovecot). I can read new mail, old mail, whatever - no hanging, no extra login connections showing up in

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Ok, so your assumption is that some connections to Dovecot hang for an > unknown reason and that's why Thunderbird creates new ones? In order to > debug that, I would increase logfile verbosity für Dovecot (probably > including authentication logging)

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner: >> Thunderbird isn't >> supposed to be opening a new connection with each message it tries to >> read; it should just read them with the one connection it has. > > Well, it usually uses more than one connection. I'd still try reducing >

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
John L. Cunningham grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:44:29PM -0800, David Guntner wrote: >> Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for >> some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. I'll select an >> unread message, and the header

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
David Guntner: > Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> >> Dovecot limits both the total number of parallel connections and the >> number of connections per user (or per client IP address, don't >> remember). Either increase that or reduce the number of connections >> Thunderbird uses. >

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:44:29PM -0800, David Guntner wrote: > Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for > some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. I'll select an > unread message, and the header will change in the display, but the body > doesn't ap

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
Jochen Spieker grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner: >> >> Watching the syslog, I can see what's happening when I move to another >> message is that a *new* login connection is being established (without >> closing the old one) with the IMAP server. After I've moved around >> enough times

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread David Guntner
One other thing to add here - Upon initial connection, TB has no problems getting the list of messages. That pops up right away. It's only when selecting an unread message that it hangs as described below. It flags the message as "read" but never gets off "downloading message" until I click

Re: Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
David Guntner: > > Watching the syslog, I can see what's happening when I move to another > message is that a *new* login connection is being established (without > closing the old one) with the IMAP server. After I've moved around > enough times, the server logs a note saying that I've exceeded

Thunderbird not working with Dovecot

2012-11-20 Thread David Guntner
Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. I'll select an unread message, and the header will change in the display, but the body doesn't appear - the status bar just says "Downloading message..." and it sits th