[Info-vax] IMAP problems with Thunderbird

[etmsreec at yahoo.co.uk]

On 11 Jan, 17:28, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Is there a status code in the accounting information in
ACCOUNTNG.DAT?  that's probably where I'd start on this.
Bear in mind though that the IMAP server is a hungry little beastie
(as you probably already know) and large mail files do tend to cause
it problems.  I had issues with Outlook when I had many many messages
in my mail file which I suspect came down to Outlook expected a
message from the IMAP Server to say it was done, never got it, so
deleted all of my inbox.  It did this several times but always left
just enough time between instances that I thought the problem was
resolved. :o(

That said, I've not experienced any problems with Mac Mail (yet).

Steve