[Info-vax] IMAP problems with Thunderbird

[David J Dachtera]

JF Mezei 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.

Do a SET PROCESS/DUMP on the server process, then when it dies, collect
the dump and see if someone here can analyse it.

D.J.D.