Dan Christensen <j...@uwo.ca> writes: > I've installed dovecot 1:1.1.11-0ubuntu4.1 on my jaunty system. > Access from the same host works well, but when I access remotely > (from various MUAs and networks) I get *very* frequent disconnects. > Authentication is fine, and I can usually open a mail folder, > but larger operations such as copying 20 messages into an imap > folder always get disconnected. ... > The clients I have tried are Gnus (with starttls and gnutls-cli) and > evolution, on a jaunty system; and k9mail-beta on an HTC Dream cell > phone. All four configurations show similar connection issues, and > the jaunty client system has a solid DSL connection to the server.
If I configure dovecot to listen on a different port, I don't have these troubles. So I suspect some network throttling of imap data somewhere. My contact at the university doesn't think this happens, and I'd be surprised if my ISP does this, but I can't think of any other explanation. Dan