My posting yesterday described a bug in Cyrus 2.0.9 that causes loss of messages in the source mailbox after the server aborts a copy command with message "signalled to death by 14". Here is some more information about the circumstances under which the copy command is aborted in the first place. I've discovered (on Solaris 7 at least) that if the client has previously used the IDLE command, then a copy command that does not complete within about 33 seconds is aborted with the "signalled to death by 14" message and the IMAP connection closed by the server. All is well if the client does not use the IDLE command. Perhaps any command not completing within about 30 seconds will meet a similar fate - I haven't checked. This might point to a problem in the IDLE code. -- John Holman Queen Mary. University of London, UK
