[Info-vax] IMAP problems with Thunderbird

[JF Mezei]

IMAP from TCPIP 5.6 on alpha 8.3.
Thunderbird 2.0.something on OS-X.

This worked relatively well for a few years. But now, whenever I do a
"GET NEW MAIL", it reloads the whole inbox folder.

And often, during that reload, the IMAP server just ends abruptly and
the TCPIP stack restarts it (I see opcom message about it).


The TCPIP$IMAP_RUN.LOG looks like this:

$ run:
$     imap := $SYS$SYSTEM:TCPIP$IMAP_SERVER.EXE
$     conf  = f$edit("SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$IMAP]tcpip$imap.conf","upcase")
$     node  = f$getsyi("nodename")
$
$     imap SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$IMAP]TCPIP$IMAP.CONF CHAIN
TCPIP-I-IMAPSTART, Server starting.
TCPIP-I-IMAPIDENT, IMAP Server V5.3-RG40
TCPIP-I-IMAPRUN, Server running.
[End of file]

AKA: it is as it someone does a STOP/ID on it. No accounting, no error
message, nothing.

With Tunderbird, going into some newsgroup and returning to the mailbox
generally gets me the messages and I can then read them normally. But if
I start deleting them, I risk getting it into that mode where it wants
to re-download the whole folder.



Has anyone encountered this before ?


Is this a case of my having to give the imap process inordinates amounts
of pgfilquota so it can handle a large mail.mai file ? I am the only
user of it.