On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:44:29PM -0800, David Guntner wrote: > Well, at least not completely. I've got Dovecot up and running, but for > some reason, Thunderbird won't work with it quite right. I'll select an > unread message, and the header will change in the display, but the body > doesn't appear - the status bar just says "Downloading message..." and > it sits there until I select another message and then go back to the one > I wanted to read, at which point it displays the message.
Are there a large number of messages in the folder containing the email you're trying to read? A new T-bird install can get bogged down because it's furiously downloading the message bodies in the background. After it finishes, it acts as you would expect. > > Watching the syslog, I can see what's happening when I move to another > message is that a *new* login connection is being established (without > closing the old one) with the IMAP server. After I've moved around > enough times, the server logs a note saying that I've exceeded the > number of open connections that I can have and it just stops talking to > me any further until I close Thunderbird (at which point the log shows > all the connections being closed. As others have suggested, try reducing the maximum number of open connections that T-bird can cache. I set it to 3, and I've stopped getting that error. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121121143856.ga3...@infotech.vrg.org
