I just ran into this problem on my Debian Sarge system. The Courier imap server would hang forever on SELECT "INBOX" and also on each EXPUNGE command, so that it was taking several minutes for fetchmail to get and delete each message.
This system already had the libnss-db library installed. But, I checked the output of ifconfig, and there was no IP assigned to the lo interface. ifconfig lo down ifconfig lo up did the trick. I don't know why this happened to the loopback, but correcting it did fix the courier problem immediately. -- -John Sullivan -http://www.wjsullivan.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
