From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OsiWU-0001rN-4U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:42:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83859E089E; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63906E089E for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [76.14.68.122]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DA7DC8446040 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 13:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C85521C.2010605@badapple.net> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:42:04 -0700 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders References: <201008312005.11312.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> <4C7E9105.1040102@alyf.net> <4C7FFE55.4050508@cunning.ods.org> In-Reply-To: <4C7FFE55.4050508@cunning.ods.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0b78deb1-7416-482a-811b-c994eae05e1e X-Archives-Hash: 75f846c9911fb172f79288faeed2087a On 9/2/2010 12:43 PM, Jim Cunning wrote: > On 09/01/2010 10:44 AM, Andrea Conti wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I routinely use thunderbird to access mail on a cyrus IMAP server with >> very large folders (thousands of archived messages). >> >> IMAP support in the 3.1 series seems quite stable to me (whereas 2.x had >> frequent problems with folder indexes and 3.0.x tended to hang randomly >> while performing server operations) >> >> The only problem I can think of is that if you have used the default >> settings for the message search feature, thunderbird will attempt to >> build a full-text search index by downloading every message on the >> server (body included) when it is first run. Thunderbird will try >> downloading messages from multiple folders in parallel, which might >> cause a hign load on the server resulting in substantial delays when >> listing folder contents. >> >> If thunderbird is indexing messages (look at the progress indicator on >> the status bar), try leaving it alone until it is done -- it's a >> one-time process. >> >> If, on the other hand, everything is idle, I'm sorry but I have no idea. >> >> HTH, >> >> andrea > The problem turned out not to be with Thunderbird at all, but with the > courier-imap configuration. I found in /var/log/messages some instances > of this: > imapd-ssl: Maximum connection limit reached for ::ffff:10.0.0.1 > > It appears that the default configuration for MAXPERIP (maximum number > of connections to accept from the same IP address) was set to 4. (I > assume it's the default, since I never changed it myself.) Changing the > value to 10 eliminated the Thunderbird problem entirely. I don't know if > some other value between 4 and 10 would work as well. I'm happy with it > as it is now. I'd recommend 10 connections per concurrent account that connects to the server from the same IP. If you're running multiple accounts, like kashani-list@ and kashani@ in my case, you'll want at least 20. Same thing applies if you're running webmail for multiple account because all account access will originate from localhost. kashani